[Mageia-dev] Subrel for version updates on stable releases

Mon Dec 5 22:08:14 CET 2011

On 28.10.2011 19:17, Anssi Hannula wrote:
+> Hi!
+> 
+> Currently the updates policy [1] says that updates to a new version
+> should have 1.1.mga1 as release, and that cauldron should be bumped to
+> 2.mga2 on those cases.
+> 
+> However, on the packages where version updates are done (e.g. wine,
+> flash-player-plugin, opera, firefox, chromium), doing that causes the
+> following chain of events on every update:
+> 
+> 1. cauldron submission with 1.mga2
+> 2. mga1 submission with 1.1.mga1
+> 3. cauldron submission with 2.mga2
+> 
+> So the pkgs have to always be submitted to cauldron twice (unless one
+> skips right to 2.mga2, which would be rather confusing IMO).
+> 
+> I suggest we change the policy to say that package updates to stable
+> should use 1.mga1 release (i.e. no subrel), so that it goes:
+> 1. cauldron submission with 1.mga2
+> 2. mga1 submission with 1.mga1
+> 
+> and no extra submissions or commits required.
+> 
+> Then, if some extra fix is needed, one does:
+> 1. cauldron submission with 2.mga2
+> 2. mga1 submission with 1.1.mga1
+> 
+> 
+> WDYT?
+> 
+> [1] http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=updates_policy
+> 
+
+As no one was against it, I've updated the policy page:
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+