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

Thu Jan 12 20:10:59 CET 2012

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Juan Luis Baptiste <juancho at mageia.org> wrote:
+> 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.
+
+But then you're *not* doing as the policy says, as policy says:
+"same version of the package *released with the distribution*"
+So whatever version that ended up in the initial release of the
+distro. Not what is available upstream.
+
+> 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.
+
+Yes, but this then changes the policy drastically (for the better, so
+please change it)
+
+And when I write "whatever is against the policy" - I'm referring to
+what is written in the wiki, not what people actually do.
+If you don't care what is written, but do how you like, then there's
+no point in having written policy, and even less reason to point
+people to those policies to make them shut up/not ask questions.
+
+ciao
+Christian
+