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

Wed Jan 11 17:43:35 CET 2012

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:51:55 +0100
+Guillaume Rousse
+<guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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
+
+Thanks.
+
+> > 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.
+
+As both an user and an upstream developer, I would not expect a Mageia
+packager to know better than the upstream developers what can
+constitute a regression, and what is a good compromise to fix or not.
+At least for well-maintained upstream projects, that is :-)
+
+> Welcome to our new QA team volonteer :)
+
+Agreed that my advice would be more constructive if I got involved, but
+I don't have the time for that.
+
+Regards
+
+Antoine.
+
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+