[Mageia-dev] Updates and 0 release

Fri Jul 29 22:58:54 CEST 2011

Le vendredi 29 juillet 2011 22:45:41, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz a écrit :
+> Le Vendredi 29 Juillet 2011 22:16:26 Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> > Le jeudi 28 juillet 2011 10:08:44, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> > > Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011 22:52:00, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> > > > Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011 16:59:37, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> > > > > Ok, there will be no meeting tonight, so let's decide it on the
+> > > > > ML. Was everyone convinced by misc's demonstration and do we
+> > > > > agree to stop using the 0 release for updates and activate the
+> > > > > Youri::Submit::Test::Precedence check on submit to prevent
+> > > > > higher
+> > > > > releases in mageia n than in mageia n+1 ?
+> > > > > 
+> > > > > And if yes do we use subrels for subsequent modifications of
+> > > > > packages
+> > > > > that are proper to the mageia 1 branch ?
+> > > > > 
+> > > > > I vote yes for both questions.
+> > > > > 
+> > > > > Samuel
+> > > > 
+> > > > Just to make things clear, contrarily as what was said in some of
+> > > > the
+> > > > previous mails, I was told on IRC by misc and dmorgan that we should
+> > > > always use subrels for updates.
+> > > > 
+> > > > So this means that, when pushing foo-2-1.mga2 from cauldron to
+> > > > 1/updates, it will become foo-2-1.1.mga1 and not foo-2-1.mga1
+> > > > 
+> > > > It means also that you will have to bump the release in cauldron in
+> > > > order to be allowed to submit the update, in that case. But as misc
+> > > > said, it should not happen very often :
+> > > > - providing new versions as updates should remain an exception per
+> > > > updates policy
+> > > > - if the package in cauldron already has a release > 1, no need to
+> > > > bump
+> > > > it
+> > > > 
+> > > > Hope it's clear.
+> > > > 
+> > > > Best regards
+> > > > 
+> > > 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.
+> > > 
+> > > Best regards
+> > > 
+> > As promised, I'm going to update the updates policy regarding release and
+> > to fix the release for updates currently staging in updates_testing when
+> > they need to.
+> > 
+> > Best regards
+> > 
+> Can you plaste the URL please?
+
+http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=updates_policy
+
+Samuel
+