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

Sat Jun 9 21:34:34 CEST 2012

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+Il 09/06/2012 20:38, Sander Lepik ha scritto:
+> I see backports as the way to get some new stuff from cauldron
+> before cauldron is fully stable. There is no point to backport from
+> cauldron to n-2 (mga1 at the moment). If the user wants so much
+> newer stuff s/he better upgrade to latest stable.
+There could be no point now -and maybe for you-, but it could be in
+future or for sombody who does not want to update to mga2 yet (kmail2,
+akonadi, kwallet issues) and want to get some leaf packages for his/her
+needs (firefox, mondevelop, ...).
+If we allow bp, and i'm in favor of that, we must consider all the
+possible cases, and must be able to upgrade to next mgaX without
+issues due to bp imho.
+
+> Cherry-picking for me means that i can upgrade some packages from
+> backports and then disable the repo. After that i'm still able to
+> upgrade to fully stable next release (w/o backports).
+I understood that also, and it should work exactly as we are using
+XXX_testing for some packages, if bp is approved must
+work as expected and allow either upgrade or disabling bp.
+
+Angelo
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