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

Fri Jun 8 19:35:28 CEST 2012

On Jun 8, 2012 2:33 PM, "Samuel Verschelde" <stormi at laposte.net> wrote:
+>
+> Le vendredi 8 juin 2012 11:40:59, Sander Lepik a écrit :
+> > 08.06.2012 11:51, Samuel Verschelde kirjutas:
+> > > And what about security issues and bugs to those backports? It will
+use
+> > > more packager ressource to patch backports than to provide newer
+> > > versions, won't it?
+> >
+> > If there is security issue then you have to fix it on cauldron too
+(usually
+> > with new version, so you can backport it to stable version). At least
+> > before release. And after backports are closed you can upgrade to latest
+> > stable version (for example mga3) and get patched version this way. I
+> > don't see the problem here.
+> >
+>
+> So you mean that backports are supported for 9 months and then you have to
+> upgrade to the next Mageia if you want security fixes... That's not what
+I call
+> support :/ What about people who want not to upgrade their whole system
+to the
+> next Mageia and still get support for that backport they installed?
+I don't think that we need to support backports that much. It should be
+clear that backports might not get all security updates. We should
+guarantee that it's possible to upgrade to next stable release and that's
+about it. We really don't have resources for more.
+And if user doesn't want to upgrade to next release but at the same time
+wants security updates s/he can always downgrade.
+
+--
+Sander
+-------------- next part --------------
+An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
+URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20120608/7e8c5812/attachment.html>
+