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

Mon Oct 4 15:09:32 CEST 2010

On Saturday, 2 October 2010 09:34:23 Olivier Méjean wrote:
+> Le samedi 2 octobre 2010 02:09:47, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> > This rolling release already exists, it's called the backport
+> > repository. But don't expect the same stability as the fixed release,
+> > you can't have both.
+> 
+> Well, i disagree for a good reason, in free software there is no (or mainly
+> no) separation between new versions of a software only correcting bugs, and
+> new versions of the same software adding new functionnalities. Let's take
+> an example, digikam.
+> Changes from digikam 1.3 to 1.4 are bugs correction affecting digikam 1.3
+> and addition of new functionnalities. So what ? I need digikam more stable
+> so let's use the version that corrects bugs, so the latest, but it also
+> adds new functionnalities that may provide bugs ... (and in the case of
+> Digikam 1.4 it requires KDE 4.5, unfortunately there is no update to KDE
+> 4.5 for Mandriva 2010 !) what to do ?
+
+urpmi --searchmedia Backports digikam
+
+(see http://lists.mandriva.com/changelog/2010-09/msg01089.php)
+
+If you have no regressions, use it, and report back to maintainer, or 
+contributor who backported it, and motivate for promotion to update.
+
+If you have regressions, revert to version on main/release or main/updates, 
+report bugs upstream, await bugfixes from upstream.
+
+Unless you're actually running 2010.0, in which case you seem to not support 
+your entire wish by your actions ....
+
+> I also add that creating backports is creating new packages for older
+> versions that is more time to compilation, more time to ensure quality,
+> and so. In the whole i am not sure that it.
+
+If you want rolling release, with all that brings (including sometimes, 
+untested packages, or packages that are not yet complete, but have to be 
+uploaded to allow completion of a difficult build dependency chain), run cooker.
+
+If you want stable release with updated packages, request (or contribute!) 
+backports.
+
+[...]
+
+> So one cannot say that stability is affected by backport when backported
+> packages are to correct existing bugs (but maybe adding new bugs due to new
+> functionnalities). Noboby would say that KDE 4.1 is more stable than KDE
+> 4.5 but there is no means to update KDE 4.x to KDE 4.x+1 at the moment,
+> and i consider that must be in update policies. With Mandriva 2010 i am
+> stick to 4.3.5 and i bet there will be no more evolution for KDE 4.3
+> branch.
+
+Wait, you're complaining that software in the distribution is too old, but 
+you're running the previous release of the distribution (2010.0 I guess, but 
+you aren't clear).
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+