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

Fri Oct 28 23:32:46 CEST 2011

On 28.10.2011 20:07, D.Morgan wrote:
+> 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
+
+If a fix is added in mageia1 again, the same fix needs to be added in
+cauldron always as well.
+
+> 0.1mga1 for the first we will use 0.2mga1 for the second, and so on
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+