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

Thu Jan 12 20:04:07 CET 2012

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Christian Lohmaier
+<lohmaier+mageia at googlemail.com> wrote:
+> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Juan Luis Baptiste <juancho at mageia.org> wrote:
+>> [..]
+>> As I said, no one is talking about picking up a fix if there's a bug
+>> fix only release, it's for when it isn't and we need to reduce the
+>> chance of regressions by taking the modifications that *exactly* fix
+>> that bug.
+>
+> I strongly disagree. The policy is stating the exact opposite. And
+> also Michael seems to defend the policy as it is written, and not your
+> interpretation here.
+>
+
+No, I'm doing exactly as the policy says, patch current stable
+version. The thing about bugfix only releases is something that it
+seems packagers have been doing implicitly as pterjan said before, and
+needs to be added to the policy.
+
+> That again you might have a different understanding of
+> bugfix-only-release. I think I stated mine often enough (increase in
+> micro version when package follows major.minor.micro versioning scheme
+> and no new features are introduced in micro releases).
+>
+
+This isn't always the case, some projects include both bug fixes and
+new minor features in a micro version bump release. So you have to
+check first the Changelog to be sure it only includes bug fixes (which
+I do not completely agree for some cases, but that's another topic).
+
+> So please change the wording of the update policy accordingly
+> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy reads:
+> ##########
+
+[...]
+
+> ##########
+> I read it as "no version bumb is allowed (except for the three
+> exception-cases listed) - bugs are only fixed using patches", and I
+> don't see the interpretational freedom to allow upstream's bugfix
+> releases. Updating from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3 would not be in compliance with
+> the policy (if not in one of the three exception cases) - this is what
+> I have called stupid policy (and still do).
+>
+
+Yes, this must be added to the policy to avoid more confusions.
+
+
+-- 
+Juancho
+