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

Wed Jan 11 19:22:23 CET 2012

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:43:35 -0500
+Juan Luis Baptiste <juancho at mageia.org>
+wrote:
+> > Sure, you cannot be save of regressions, but what makes you think you
+> > are smarter than upstream? What makes you so sure that not the one
+> > commit you add as a patch to your package is the one that causes the
+> > regressions?
+> >
+> 
+> Because as I said earlier, we backport the "commit" that fixes that
+> single issue, based on the info found on the bugzilla report of the
+> upstream project.
+
+But how do you choose which patches you want to backport from the
+stream of bugfixes done by upstream? Should the packager monitor all
+bug fixing activity? (sure (s)he *can*, but that's a lot of work)
+
+Just because someone doesn't file a bug against Mageia doesn't mean the
+bug doesn't bother anybody, because many users don't report upstream
+bugs to the distro's tracker.
+(also, other users don't bother reporting bugs at all :-))
+
+Regards
+
+Antoine.
+
+
+