[Mageia-dev] new mgarepo version

Sat Jul 16 12:20:22 CEST 2011

Le samedi 16 juillet 2011 à 11:36 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> Le samedi 16 juillet 2011 03:02:21, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+
+> > Wasn't it against the policy ( ie, this is neither a bugfix, this is a
+> > version update, providing feature ) ?
+> 
+> Strictly speaking, maybe, but the policy says "Things are not set in stone, 
+> but we need a policy to move ahead with releasing updates for mga1, and we can 
+> refine the process as we find issues/shortcomings.", and I think this is one of 
+> the cases where we can allow updates, to ease packager's work. We could add 
+> "updates of mageia distribution building tools are allowed to ensure that 
+> packagers using stable releases have the same tools than those using cauldron"
+
+Personally, I would prefer that we first refine the policy and then act
+rather than the contrary :)
+
+And so, if we provides newer version of tools, what is wrong with using
+backports for that ?
+
+I am not keen on pushing our newer tool on update, since we plan to have
+our server using mageia, and so in the futur, if we push newer iurt,
+mgarepo, rpmlint, they may potentially disrupt build system. So by being
+clear and using backports, we would avoid such problem more easily. 
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
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