[Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

Fri Jun 8 10:38:06 CEST 2012

I re-read the backports policy, and there's a part I think needs to be pointed 
+out before people start to backport packages. 
+
+"We need to ensure that upgrades never fail: cauldron must always have a 
+higher version/release than in stable releases."
+
+This statement is true, but implies more than what it says. It means that we 
+can't backport a package for Mageia 1 with a higher version than what we have 
+in Mageia 2 release (and updates?) media. And this, until we are able to take 
+backports into account during upgrades.
+
+Example :
+- Mageia 2 has wesnoth 1.10.2 in core/release
+- Mageia 1 can't get a higher version in its backports media 
+
+Do you all agree with my understanding of the policy ?
+
+This is a serious limitation to our ability to backport to Mageia (n-1) and 
+even to our ability to provide security fixes to backports there (will not 
+prevent it, but will prevent to do it by a version upgrade, which is the 
+common way to fix that kind of issue in backports).
+
+Maybe we shouldn't open backports for Mageia 1, and make sure upgrade to 
+Mageia 3 can take backports from Mageia 2 into account so that backports to 
+Mageia 2 are not stopped when Mageia 3 is released. Then we'll be safe.
+
+Samuel
+