[Mageia-dev] Subrel for version updates on stable releases

Fri Oct 28 19:07:14 CEST 2011

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> wrote:
+> Hi!
+>
+> Currently the updates policy [1] says that updates to a new version
+> should have 1.1.mga1 as release, and that cauldron should be bumped to
+> 2.mga2 on those cases.
+>
+> However, on the packages where version updates are done (e.g. wine,
+> flash-player-plugin, opera, firefox, chromium), doing that causes the
+> following chain of events on every update:
+>
+> 1. cauldron submission with 1.mga2
+> 2. mga1 submission with 1.1.mga1
+> 3. cauldron submission with 2.mga2
+>
+> So the pkgs have to always be submitted to cauldron twice (unless one
+> skips right to 2.mga2, which would be rather confusing IMO).
+>
+> I suggest we change the policy to say that package updates to stable
+> should use 1.mga1 release (i.e. no subrel), so that it goes:
+> 1. cauldron submission with 1.mga2
+> 2. mga1 submission with 1.mga1
+>
+> and no extra submissions or commits required.
+>
+> Then, if some extra fix is needed, one does:
+> 1. cauldron submission with 2.mga2
+> 2. mga1 submission with 1.1.mga1
+>
+>
+> WDYT?
+>
+> [1] http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=updates_policy
+>
+> --
+> Anssi Hannula
+>
+
+
+Why not simple 0.1mga1 in updates  ? because if we add a fix in mageia
+again we will have to rebuild in cauldron anyway but if we use
+
+0.1mga1 for the first we will use 0.2mga1 for the second, and so on
+