[Mageia-dev] Updates and 0 release

Fri Jul 29 10:38:27 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Samuel Verschelde at 29/07/11 09:32 did gyre and gimble:
+> Le vendredi 29 juillet 2011 10:25:02, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Samuel Verschelde at 28/07/11 13:11 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> Le jeudi 28 juillet 2011 13:02:26, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+>>>> 'Twas brillig, and Samuel Verschelde at 28/07/11 09:08 did gyre and 
+> gimble:
+>>>>> We have updates blocked by this release 0 issue, so we need a quick
+>>>>> decision. I propose that if tomorrow nobody reacted against the
+>>>>> proposal, it will be adopted.
+>>>>
+>>>> Personally, I would vote to keep it the way it is with the 0 releases.
+>>>>
+>>>> I'm not convinced that any of the arguments represent real world
+>>>> problems.
+>>>>
+>>>> Col
+>>>
+>>> Here is a question I got yesterday, which the proposal solves, but that's
+>>> not a very common issue and maybe the 0 releases way works with it too :
+>>>
+>>> If we had imported it before mageia 1 was released, we would have had
+>>> cultivation-9-0.20071217.6.mga1 in mageia 1 (a pre-release).
+>>>
+>>> Then suppose we want to update it to the final 9 release in both cauldron
+>>> and mageia 1 : we have cultivation-9-1.mga1 in cauldron. But what
+>>> release should we use in updates for mageia 1 ?
+>>>
+>>> cultivation-9-0.1.mga1 doesn't work because cultivation-9-0.1.mga1 <
+>>> cultivation-9-0.20071217.6.mga1
+>>>
+>>> Is there a way to do it right with a 0 release ?
+>>
+>> Yeah, I concede that this particular scenario would cause problems :s
+>>
+>> Fair point, well made :D
+> 
+> Does it mean that you agree with the proposal ? Not that I badly want it to be 
+> adopted, but I really would like to unlock the current updates in the pipe :)
+
+If it helps speed the process, then sure, I will add my official support
+for an amendment to the policy as per misc's original mail (I don't
+think my opinion carries that much weight tho'! :p)
+
+Col
+
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