[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Sat Oct 2 20:29:10 CEST 2010

In data venerdì 1 ottobre 2010 22:51:48, David W. Hodgins ha scritto:
+> If the release number was no longer part of the rpm name, packages that
+> were not changed (which I would expect to be the bulk of them), would not
+> have to be recompiled, or downloaded/installed, every six months.  That
+> would greatly reduce the amount of work for the developers, and the users.
+OTOH you are not sure that some packages when you upgrade your system
+are there because they are older or newer.
+
+I was one who wanted the release number into the rpm name when it was a
+proposal, and i'm yet sure it was (and should be) a good idea.
+You can avoid to rebuild your packages if you think they are compatible with
+an incoming release, there's no problem to read old distro version in them,
+but if they don't work users can complain that they have not been rebuilt...
+and (often) upgrades and backports don't fail to upgrade same package version
+from a distro release and the next one. 
+Avoid release number instead, can cause problems when a backport has been 
+installed, for glibc incompatibility for instance. Same name, same package 
+version but built in backport for stable release and in developer for incoming
+means it won't be upgraded when developer's becomes new official.
+
+My 2€ cents
+
+-- 
+Angelo
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