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

Fri Jun 8 21:07:11 CEST 2012

Op vrijdag 8 juni 2012 19:56:52 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+> Le vendredi 8 juin 2012 19:35:28, Sander Lepik a écrit :
+> > 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.
+> 
+> That backports are supported is the key point of the policy, which was
+> discussed and validated months ago. It's not a "let's throw in random
+> packages" media, it's part of the distribution. Resources will limit the
+> number of different packages we are able to backport AND maintain, not the
+> quality of our support.
+> 
+> So I'd like us to discuss the way to attain this objective rather than try
+> to force users needs to fit with what's simpler for us. Solutions probably
+> revolve around taking backports into account during upgrade, which is
+> doable. Hard, maybe, but doable:
+> - online upgrade can use backports media for packages not coming from
+> release. If we don't know where a package comes from we can start storing
+> that information somewhere, or guess (any package with higher version
+> installed than that in target distro's updates should be updated using
+> backports media). - DVD could detect packages which can't be updated (in
+> fact, it should do it already since there are already, DVDs having limited
+> space), and warn about them. DVD upgrade should also, if possible, detect
+> dependency problems *before* actually upgrading. Then if network is
+> available ask the user if they want to use online media for safer upgrade.
+> 
+> Samuel
+
+sounds like someone wants to make a Feature wiki page
+