[Mageia-dev] Proposal of a backporting process

Mon Jun 27 21:17:22 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 25/06/11 23:16 did gyre and gimble:
+>> we
+>> always say that backports should mainly be cherry picked, but not
+>> enabled all the time... so how does installing a new version of e.g.
+>> wine break the user's system when he can easily back out that rpm?
+> 
+> I a not sure that most people realize they can revert. Maybe a easier
+> interface to do that could be offered ( along maybe with a tool that
+> send feedback on why it did downgrade it ? ).
+
+I've seen various ppa-purge commands being dished out for custom PPAs on
+Ubuntu. It looks like quite a nice idea, but only really applies for
+individual use archives (e.g. help us test the development version of
+$foo), not a general purpose one like "backports".
+
+That said, a GUI which detected that certain packages have come from
+backports and offers and easy mechanism to "switch" back to the older
+one from release or updates would, IMO, be a plus.
+
+Col
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