[Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1

Wed Jan 11 03:28:15 CET 2012

Le mardi 10 janvier 2012 19:12:29 Christian Lohmaier a écrit :
+> Hi Luis, *,
+> 
+> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
+> 
+> <dlucio at okay.com.mx> wrote:
+> > AS i understand
+> > we are not a rolling distribution, so i dont get why i'm getting tickets
+> > to
+> > update release.
+> > 
+> > What I mean, if you consider an update, like the one i did squid 3.1.12 to
+> > 3.1.15 please explain why.
+> 
+> No knowing squid's release-numbering-scheme, but update in micro
+> version usually are (fully compatible) bugfix releases, so why is an
+> explanation necessary? The explanation is "fixed bugs"
+> 
+> And using a fixed upstream release surely is preferable over adding
+> patches manually, isn't it?
+> 
+> > Otherwhise i gues it is better you cand use Mageia
+> >
+> > cauldron SRPM and do backport for  your self.
+> 
+> I understand a backport as adding a version with new features, usually
+> signalled by an update in either major or minor version. Those might
+> come with break in backwards or forwad-compatibility, so giving clear
+> reason why it should be backported surely is justified.
+> 
+> The lower in the stack (the more other packages depend on the package
+> in question), the more thought needs to be put into it. But if a
+> package that no other package depends on is concerned, then I'd say it
+> is up to the  packager to decide whether he/she will go through the
+> trouble of backporting it. If the spec is well written, and
+> configuring the package is "sane", then it is easy, if it is a
+> hacked-together spec/build-system it is hard.
+> 
+> But bugfixreleases (i.e. just micro version changed for most package
+> versioning schemes) should just consist of updating the source-tarball
+> (and maybe dropping some patches that found their way upstream and
+> rediff the remaining ones) and I don't understand your request to
+> "stop" those requests.
+> 
+> ciao
+> Christian
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+
+You dont get me,
+
+I mean, stop asking updates for mageia 1 just because there is another 
+newversion.
+
+LD
+