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

Fri Oct 28 23:06:22 CEST 2011

Le vendredi 28 octobre 2011 18:17:18, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
+> 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
+
+I warned about this when we discussed about release 0 and subrels for updates, 
+but nobody reacted against at that time, so it ended in the written policy :)
+
+See https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/007080.html
+
+I don't see drawbacks to your change proposal, if no one does, it gets my 
+vote.
+
+Best regards
+
+Samuel Verschelde
+