[Mageia-dev] Opening backports (was Re: [Mageia-sysadm] Using SQL database for youri)

Sat Oct 1 00:57:35 CEST 2011

on Sat, 1 Oct 2011 08:05
+in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.mageia.devel
+Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+
+> Op vrijdag 30 september 2011 23:35:40 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+>> Le jeudi 29 septembre 2011 21:10:42, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+[snip]
+ 
+>> > Also, the sooner we have backports, the less there will be external
+>> > third- party repos with all the problems (upgrade, support) that causes.
+>> > There already are, don't let them too much space and rather invite their
+>> > packagers to backport *inside* (as long as they stay within the policy
+>> > of course).
+[snip]
+ 
+>> If needed, the tremendous amount of packages in Blogdrake's 3rd party media
+>> shows how much backports are needed by users, whatever we as packagers can
+>> think of it.
+>> 
+>> I'm still convinced that opening backports right now, using one of my 2
+>> proposals (if I haven't overlooked a technical difficulty), would be an
+>> important step forward for us.
+>> 
+>> Best regards
+>> 
+>> Samuel
+> 
+> I have to agree, if opening backports brings in more packagers who are likely 
+> to integrate well AND bring in more users AND likely would step up and 
+> maintain similar packages, we should help their effort and not get our 
+> community too splintered, even though updates _is_ more important than 
+> backports.
+
+Potentially silly idea:  
+
+Would it be worth having backports-supported and backports-unsupported, 
+or backports and backports-untested, or backports and backports-3rd-party?  
+
+You could occasionally move things in either direction between 
+supported and unsupported.  
+
+