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

Tue Jun 12 11:41:03 CEST 2012

martedì 12 giugno 2012 alle 08:25, blind Pete ha scritto:
+> Some packages annoyingly have two current versions.  When that 
+> happens it seems perfectly reasonable to just pick one, but if 
+> anyone is ambitious enough to try two at once, this would be a 
+> mechanism to handle it.  
+Are you serious? Here it's not only a pakcage issue, what you're
+proposing to change package contents :/
+
+foo-1.0.mga1 - (core)      -> /bin/foo
+foo-1.2.mga1 - (backports) -> /bin/foo
+
+they can't be installed togheter, and changing
+package names would not solve this issue, but
+add packagers problems like conflict or obsoleting
+and upgradability issues....
+
+/me is confused
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