[Mageia-dev] Possible workaround of bug related to Orphans: need opinions

Fri May 27 15:41:57 CEST 2011

> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 14:49, Marcello Anni <marcello.anni at alice.it> wrote:
+> > no (as i explain below), the communication is ok, is the kindness and the
+> > explanation of Anne that disappointed me.
+> 
+> Note to self for next time: take a photo of ennael handing a huge sign
+> "It's freeze time!" with a large smile + a link to a tutorial that
+> explains what that means for everyone - and put it in a corner of all
+> mageia.org web sites.
+
+good idea : )
+> 
+> > but in fact i know that we are in freeze, but i see also that some 
+packages
+> > (e.g. mageiaonline) continue to be improved for release,
+> 
+> Not improved, but fixed. Because this one is release critical - this
+> has nothing to do with a cosmectic change.
+
+ok, it's not release critical but it's not neither a cosmetic change, as users 
+are suggested to remove those packages and in the 99% of the cases it brings 
+huge issues... and we should also remember that a person that uses linux is 
+curious and wants the best for his system, if he reads "these packages are now 
+unuseful (and he doesn't come from mandriva)" he probably (50%?) will try the 
+comand
+> 
+> > but do you consider a change in a language string as a difficult change? i 
+don't
+> > have technical skills but i don't think so...
+> 
+> No, but being in freeze disregards totally that a change is trivial
+> (changing the string) or not (fixing the behaviour). It's not a
+> release critical bug, so it just does not get on the table past the
+> freeze date. And even less (because there are exceptions) when the
+> release time is approaching.
+
+andré blais proposed a similar solution on 2011-04-29, it's not a last-day 
+proposal:
+
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920#c6
+> 
+> Romain
+> 
+
+hope it will be fixed in some updates for mageia 1 release.
+
+
+cheers,
+Marcello
+