[Mageia-dev] Backports process (addendum to policy)

Fri Sep 9 00:40:42 CEST 2011

Le Vendredi 9 Septembre 2011 00:26:51 Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> Le vendredi 9 septembre 2011 00:01:25, Juan Luis Baptiste a écrit :
+> > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Samuel Verschelde
+> > <stormi at laposte.net>
+> wrote:
+> > > Packager:
+> > > - create bug report if not done already
+> > 
+> > This even counts if the packager is the one with the initiative to
+> > do the backport ? I mean, if I regularly update my packages and
+> > also want to up backport them, now I'll also would have to create
+> > a bug report each time I want to do a backport of my own packages
+> > ?
+> 
+> Yes, we really want to provide supported backports, and that means
+> there must be testing. Creating a bug report doesn't take more time
+> than testing the backport in Mageia 1, so I don't think this will be
+> a big overhead, apart for packagers who don't test their backports
+> themselves.
+> 
+> To summarize :
+> - you are free to submit in backports_testing (so in a certain way the
+> package is available in Mageia 1 directly)
+We also need to remember that some backports available in 
+backports_testing can also affect others packages (like some library 
+update ).
+
+-- 
+Balcaen John
+