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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Backports policy proposal</H1>
    <B>Buchan Milne</B> 
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<PRE>On Friday, 24 June 2011 08:30:15 Maarten Vanraes wrote:
&gt;<i> Op vrijdag 24 juni 2011 02:10:14 schreef Michael Scherer:
</I>&gt;<i> [...]
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Another rule that we could add is that cauldron should always be newer
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; than backports, in order to ensure upgradability. The same goes for n-2
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; and n-1 release.
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; While this seems innocent, do not forget this will have a impact when we
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; do the version freeze.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> [..]
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> This seems hard to enforce... i can imagine if you make backport, it has
</I>&gt;<i> essentially the same version as in cauldron, i can think that there is a
</I>&gt;<i> few spec file changes that are only for backports,
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Why should it need spec file changes?

&gt;<i> and thus the release
</I>&gt;<i> becomes newer than the one in cauldron
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If it requires spec file changes, why should cauldron not get a new release 
that includes the changes?

Sorry, but a number of my packages were regularly backported, and I never 
needed cooker to be older ...

Regards,
Buchan
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