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

Thu Oct 14 17:33:31 CEST 2010

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, nicolas vigier wrote:
+
+> Experience tells me that backports break much more than regular
+> security/bugfix updates.
+
+Do you have any examples?
+
+I have been using backports on all my PCs and enabled them on all PCs of 
+friends whom I installed Mandriva and so far I have yet to see a single 
+breakage caused by backports.
+
+My desktop PC is still running 2008.1 to which I have personally 
+backported loads of apps even from 2011 cooker, without any issues.
+Granted, I was unable to backport some apps due to the great difference 
+in lib versions, but that's to be expected when considering 2008.1 is 
+2.5 years old. But all apps that built fine, work fine.
+
+There was on the other hand a huge breakage caused by a normal 
+bugfix update of KDE4 in 2009.0 that caused KDE3.5 to completely break 
+for all users that had chosoen KDE3.5 (which was still supported in 2009.0).
+
+
+> The software itself can be more stable, but not the integration with
+> the other software.
+
+Why do you say that?
+
+It's all a matter of due care and obviously of avoiding backports 
+of things like KDE or other core stuff.
+
+