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

Wed Jan 11 16:51:55 CET 2012

Le 11/01/2012 16:09, Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
+> As a Mageia user I would expect Mageia to package significant *bugfix
+> releases* and ship them in the updates for the stable distro.
+You'd rather read the current update policy, rather than expect blind 
+assertions:
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy
+
+> For example, it would be nice if an up-to-date Mageia 1 system had
+> Python 2.7.2 rather than Python 2.7.1 (not a deal-breaker, of course,
+> but nice). There's more than a hundred bug fixes between the two
+> versions and I don't expect Mageia to have independently fixed many of
+> these bugs.
+A bug may vary from a typo in a man page to a critical security update, 
+which make the number of claimed bugfix a poor decision metric. A 
+non-regression ensurance would be a better one, but it's quite difficult 
+to assert.
+
+> If you think shipping bugfixes isn't part of the QA for a stable version
+> then I'm not sure what said QA should be (apart from updating Firefox
+> to new major versions that is :-)).
+Welcome to our new QA team volonteer :)
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #368:
+
+Failure to adjust for daylight savings time.
+