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Really, give me an example. +</I> +Release frequency never was a criteria for differentiating between +pushing something to updates and something to backports. + +And I see no reason why it would be in favor of doing a bug fix update +rather than a backport, especially if we ask to do a more stringent QA +checking on updates, as it would put too much work on the team. + +><i> And, like it or not, calibre is _THE_ application for e-book lovers. For e-book users, it's as important as Firefox or +</I>><i> Chromium is for the rest of the people. +</I> +Again, that's not a criteria. Every software is important to at least +one person, and that would mean we should update everything if we start +to update everything important to one group of users. + + +><i> Also, Mageia 1.0 was released with a version of this application shamefully old. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Fedora made a better judgment (I might just consider switching to Fedora, although I like Mageia more): +</I>><i> they released F15 with a recent version of calibre, 0.7.56, but they added in updates 0.8.0. For the +</I>><i> time being they stopped at 0.8.0, and only in Rawhide they pushed 0.8.4, which in my opinion is a good +</I>><i> judgment that would be a _balance_ between: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- announced bug-fixes +</I>><i> -- announced new features +</I>><i> -- announced new hardware supported +</I>><i> -- ad-hoc assessment of the risk brought by the new features (a heuristic +</I>><i> process based mainly on experience as a user, experience as a software +</I>><i> developer, and common-sense).Of course, the people who _make_ a distro are +</I>><i> its _owners_, and of course the reasoning of those who make Fedora is not +</I>><i> necessarily the best example to be followed by everybody, but as it happens, I prefer their brains. +</I> +You still do not explain where is the problem of using backports for +that. + +And for what it is worth, Fedora is discussing having separate update +and backport ( <A HREF="https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/515">https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/515</A> ), even if the +discussion seems to be going nowhere at the moment + +-- +Michael Scherer + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="005589.html">[Mageia-dev] Question about backports: calibre (bug 1659) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="005638.html">[Mageia-dev] Question about backports: calibre (bug 1659) +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#5615">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#5615">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#5615">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#5615">[ 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> |