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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-June/016265.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-June/016265.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3ebedbd2c --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-June/016265.html @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion) + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Backports%20policy%20clarification%20%28and%20discussion%29&In-Reply-To=%3C201206081038.06735.stormi%40laposte.net%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="016441.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="016267.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)</H1> + <B>Samuel Verschelde</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Backports%20policy%20clarification%20%28and%20discussion%29&In-Reply-To=%3C201206081038.06735.stormi%40laposte.net%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)">stormi at laposte.net + </A><BR> + <I>Fri Jun 8 10:38:06 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="016441.html">[Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature:Backports_update_applet +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="016267.html">[Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion) +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#16265">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#16265">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#16265">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#16265">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>I re-read the backports policy, and there's a part I think needs to be pointed +out before people start to backport packages. + +"We need to ensure that upgrades never fail: cauldron must always have a +higher version/release than in stable releases." + +This statement is true, but implies more than what it says. It means that we +can't backport a package for Mageia 1 with a higher version than what we have +in Mageia 2 release (and updates?) media. And this, until we are able to take +backports into account during upgrades. + +Example : +- Mageia 2 has wesnoth 1.10.2 in core/release +- Mageia 1 can't get a higher version in its backports media + +Do you all agree with my understanding of the policy ? + +This is a serious limitation to our ability to backport to Mageia (n-1) and +even to our ability to provide security fixes to backports there (will not +prevent it, but will prevent to do it by a version upgrade, which is the +common way to fix that kind of issue in backports). + +Maybe we shouldn't open backports for Mageia 1, and make sure upgrade to +Mageia 3 can take backports from Mageia 2 into account so that backports to +Mageia 2 are not stopped when Mageia 3 is released. Then we'll be safe. + +Samuel +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="016441.html">[Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature:Backports_update_applet +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="016267.html">[Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion) +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#16265">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#16265">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#16265">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#16265">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |