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

Thu Oct 14 19:14:28 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-14 13:05, Tux99 a écrit :
+> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Maurice Batey wrote:
+>
+>> However, I then found that the new version of VLC had problems with
+>> DVD menus, and the new CUPS introduced problems (not just in my
+>> installation but at least one other Mandriva user).
+>
+> I would put this down to the fact that currently in Mandriva backports
+> are given little attention by the packagers (as has been mentioned by
+> the Mandriva packagers here themselves).
+> Of course if we make them more central to the Mageia strategy then more
+> care and testing is needed before a backport is pushed out.
+> So I wouldn't consider that a fundamental issue with backports, just a
+> procedural issue.
+> Also personally I would consider CUPS a core app so I wouldn't have
+> included that in backports at all.
+>
+>
+
+Yup. That was my comment on the Mandriva news group. If a package 
+affects the core or a large amount of other sofware packages, I, myself, 
+would avoid installing it from the "Backports". If the updated CUPS was 
+such a great upgrade, then I would imagine that the Mandriva devs would 
+have included it as a normal update and not a "Backport" upgrade. 
+Backport is great for VLC, Digikam, Amarok updates. But as Maurice 
+mentioned the VLC didn't have the dvdnav plugin with the upgrade ... so 
+there may be some hiccups from time to time with some of the software 
+upgrades.
+
+Marc
+
+