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

Thu Jan 12 11:03:22 CET 2012

Le 12/01/2012 10:27, Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
+> Each packager can decide if their upstream package is well-behaved or
+> not. Of course, better be conservative and not package bugfix releases
+> if you aren't totally confident. Still, some upstream teams *are*
+> well-behaved.
+Some means actually a very few minority among our thousands packages. 
+And even when upstream new release is perfectly safe, we're dealing with 
+binary updates here, meaning we also have to ensure the build 
+environment is perfectly similar (same compiler and build chain version, 
+for instance). Even today, when we try to always rebuild everything just 
+before release, we can't ensure it perfectly. This means there is no 0% 
+risk situation. Meaning we can never be perfectly confident.
+
+Also, there is a responsability issue. Would you assume providing an 
+update disclaiming any kind of liability such as "here is a perfectly 
+safe update from us, but if it ever breaks anything, blame someone else" ?
+
+All of this involves the need of a balance between involved work, 
+estimated risks, and expected benefits. The first factor being mostly 
+related to available workforce, you're welcome to join the team to 
+modify this balance.
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #392:
+
+It's union rules. There's nothing we can do about it. Sorry.
+