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

[Anssi Hannula]

On 28.10.2011 20:07, D.Morgan wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> 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
>>
>> --
>> Anssi Hannula
>>
> 
> 
> Why not simple 0.1mga1 in updates  ? because if we add a fix in mageia
> again we will have to rebuild in cauldron anyway but if we use

If a fix is added in mageia1 again, the same fix needs to be added in
cauldron always as well.

> 0.1mga1 for the first we will use 0.2mga1 for the second, and so on

-- 
Anssi Hannula