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

Fri Sep 9 01:01:52 CEST 2011

Le vendredi 9 septembre 2011 00:40:42, Balcaen John a écrit :
+> 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 ).
+
+Yes, I should have said "free to submit, as long as you follow the policy" 
+(and libs are outside the policy, unless ALL packages depending on the given 
+lib are backported too and dependencies are done right).
+
+Samuel
+