[Mageia-dev] Missing packages in Mageia 1. How to backport? (was: Finalizing update process)

Fri Jun 10 12:27:49 CEST 2011

Le jeudi 09 juin 2011 à 10:14 +0100, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+> Hi,
+> 
+> As I upgrade my various machines (I only really have about 5, so not
+> that many) I'm running into a few packages that are missing (this is
+> inevitable).
+> 
+> Nothing major just little things like trac and supybot etc.
+> 
+> What is the best way to add these packages to the v1 tree?
+> 
+> Using backports seems a little odd as this is "unsupported" and we don't
+> really want to encourage using it as a means to get the missing packages.
+
+If we do not want to have people use backports, we wouldn't have added
+it in the first place.
+
+I do think backport is perfectly suited for that.
+
+
+> release is obviously frozen so no go there.
+> 
+> The only real option is updates, but that should obviously have some QA
+> on it.
+
+Updates is not for new version of software, not for new softwares. And
+backporting something from cauldron is not a update.
+
+> Perhaps we need to have some kind of exemption to get these missing
+> packages added?
+> 
+> Does anyone have any opinions on this?
+
+Yes, I do.
+
+We have used backports in the past for that, and I see no reason to
+change that. 
+
+If the problem is that backports were too buggy in the past, then we
+should fix backports process, not bypassing them.
+
+And if we start by pushing new version in update, people will soon
+wonder why the new version of X is in updates, while the new version of
+Y is not, just because we didn't have X in release and Y was there.
+
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+