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

Wed Jan 11 20:50:32 CET 2012

Le mercredi 11 janvier 2012 à 16:09 +0100, Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
+> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:28:15 -0600
+> Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
+> <dlucio at okay.com.mx> wrote:
+> > 
+> > You dont get me,
+> > 
+> > I mean, stop asking updates for mageia 1 just because there is another 
+> > newversion.
+> 
+> Uh.
+> As a Mageia user I would expect Mageia to package significant *bugfix
+> releases* and ship them in the updates for the stable distro.
+>
+> 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.
+> 
+> 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 :-)).
+
+The policy ( as I remember when we discussed on this ml ) would allow to
+ship it, the specific case that I had in mind was postgresql, because it
+has a strict policy on backporting fixes, and regression testing, but
+python would fit too.
+
+However, my current workload and priority list do not place "doing a
+python update" on the top of the list. As you say, that's not a deal
+breaker, so I prefer to focus on what would be more important or urgent
+( like for example, fixing servers and broken raid array ).
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+