[Mageia-dev] Proposal of a backporting process

Tue Jun 28 14:47:31 CEST 2011

+Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 02:09:55, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> - a packager decide to do it. Based on the policy ( outlined in another
+> mail ), and maybe seeing with the maintainer first about that for non
+> trivial applications, the backport can be done, or not. The criterias
+> for being backported or not are not important to the process, just
+> assume that they exist for now ( and look at next mail ). So based on
+> criteria, someone say "it can be backported, so I do it".
+> 
+> - I am not sure on this part, but basically, we have 2 choices :
+>   - the packager take the cauldron package and push to backport testing
+>   - the packager move the cauldron package in svn to backport, and there
+> send it to backport testing.
+> 
+> Proposal 1 mean less work duplication, but proposal 2 let us do more
+> customization.
+> 
+
+If we want to be able to set stricted requires between backports to allow safe 
+cherry-picking, is it OK to do it in cauldron without any side effects ? Or 
+should we change the spec file only in the backport branch of the package 
+(which then would mean option 2) ?
+
+Best regards
+
+Samuel Verschelde
+
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