[Mageia-dev] E17 packaging

Wed Oct 26 18:58:27 CEST 2011

Am 26.10.2011 18:21, schrieb Michael scherer:
+> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Florian Hubold wrote:
+>> Am 26.10.2011 06:59, schrieb Michael Scherer:
+>>> Le samedi 22 octobre 2011 à 08:41 +0100, Philippe Reynes a écrit :
+>>>> Hi,
+>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>> I've tried to use E17, but it's an old version. I've asked e17 team,
+>>>> and they answered me that E17 is "rolling release". So no
+>>>> stable release (or vert vert few).
+>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>> I propose to package svn version, so we could be up-to-date.
+>>>> If a problem occurs, we could report it to upstream.
+>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>> What do you think about doing it on all E17 package ?
+>>> How will it go for stable support ?
+>>>
+>>> IE, once mageia 2 is out ?
+>>>
+>> We have better chances for bugfixes, don't think the snapshots which
+>> we used till now ( nearly one year old and also only based on
+>> the development release) will get some love anymore.
+>>
+>> For security issues, there were none that i'm aware of except for imlib2.
+> There is at least one that I found and reported 2 times ( albeit not using the
+> public bugtracker ) that didn't get corrected, just look
+> at http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/browser/trunk/elementary/src/lib/elm_map.c
+>
+> ( a little help : the issue is in the first 25 lines )
+You reported it two times. And as you happen to know the problem,
+may i ask where the fix is? Also may i remind you that elementary is also
+contained in Mageia 1 and also contains the issue you mentioned?
+How is that better for quality or security?
+>> But if you argument this way, we should stay with the packages we have
+>> until E17 is fully stable and release, but i don't see how this would be better.
+> We cannot at the same time say
+> "we offer quality package and take care of fixing them" and at the same time,
+> just say that we won't.
+>
+We want to be nearer to upstream to improve package quality.
+Who said we don't want to offer quality E17 packages and don't support them?
+
+If keeping old releases unchanged from distro to distro version is
+your vision of improving quality and more satisfying for our end-users,
+that's not my vision, sorry.
+