[Mageia-dev] Updates and 0 release

Tue Jul 26 19:38:30 CEST 2011

Le mardi 26 juillet 2011 18:42:05, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+[snip]
+> 
+> Yet, the problem would also be there for regular non-version upgrade
+> ( ie, if we have foo-2-2.mga2 in cauldron and stable, and that we need
+> to rebuild on stable and not on cauldron, we face the same problem ), so
+> using 0 is a incomplete solution to the issue, and the only solution is
+> to rebuild in cauldron, and such problem should better be detected by
+> youri.
+
+Very good point, this is a decisive argument to me.
+
+> 
+> So, the conclusion is that we should test ugprade rather than assuming
+> that it will just work because we placed a 0 instead of a 1 somewhere.
+
+Ok for me provided we put in place the necessary processes to avoid upgrade 
+problems (Youri::Submit::Test::Precedence for example).
+
+> 
+> Now, using 0 prevent us from having a simple way of seeing what
+> prerelease we ship and that should be updated to latest stable ( as this
+> seems to me quite desirable ).
+
+Good point too.
+
+> 
+> This is also inconsistent with the practice we had of backporting from
+> cooker ( as the initial goal at Mandriva was to have 0 modifications
+> from cooker to backports to reduce the load ). And if we ship something
+> in update and in backports, we would have the same packages with 2
+> different releases, and that doesn't seems a good idea.
+
+Worse, the backport would be preferred to the update :/
+
+You should have said all this right from the start rather than assuming that 
+we would have all these elements in mind :)
+
+Samuel
+