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

Fri Oct 28 23:05:31 CEST 2011

Le vendredi 28 octobre 2011 19:07:14, D.Morgan a écrit :
+> 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
+
+Because it was discussed in July and misc's proposal to keep release 0 only 
+for pre-versions of software was adopted :)
+
+Samuel
+