[Mageia-dev] Missing packages in Mageia 1. How to backport?

Thu Jun 9 12:03:44 CEST 2011

2011/6/9 Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 09/06/11 10:40 did gyre and
+> gimble:
+>> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+>>
+>>> otoh, perhaps a missing package is also a bugfix... maybe we could
+>>> file bug
+>>> reports for missing packages and go through the updates route...
+>>
+>> Filing bug reports is not a bad idea, even if the new package will go to
+>> backports. Just explain a little why it is important (to fix this in a
+>> stable release).
+>>
+>> We probably need a new "version" in bugzilla because mga1+backports is
+>> basically a new distro. A bug in backports shouldn't be filed against
+>> "1" IMHO.
+
+There's already a lot of requests for missing packages in Bugzilla,
+the question about filing such bug reports was answered long ago.
+
+> As I said in my original mail I really don't think backports is the
+> right approach.
+>
+> I'd prefer to have a 3rd party repo than abuse backports to get the
+> missing packages.
+
+I thought we will try to avoid 3rd party repos?
+
+> I think updates would be the right place.
+>
+> Perhaps we can make the submission process check to see if there already
+> exists a package and if not, allow packagers to submit directly to
+> core/updates? That way the first version of the package will make it to
+> updates but subsequent changes will have to go via QA?
+>
+> While the "oops I messed up the first version" problem could happen, it
+> would at least keep the burden on the packager for the majority of cases
+> which is how we want it (from my understanding of the previous messages
+> on this thread).
+
+-- 
+wobo
+