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

Wed Jun 13 00:53:16 CEST 2012

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, andre999 wrote:
+
+> nicolas vigier a écrit :
+>> On Fri, 08 Jun 2012, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
+>>
+>>    
+>>> 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.
+>>>      
+>> I think we cannot have both :
+>> - backports with higher version than in next stable release
+>> - easy upgrade to next stable release
+>>    
+>
+> Why not ?
+> We would have to ensure that the version of the backport is less than or 
+> equal to the version of the package (backport or not) in the next stable 
+> release.  We just have to follow the versioning policy of updates c.f. 
+> Cauldron, i.e. an update always has a version less than cauldron.  (Which 
+> allows for adding updates without changing the version of the next 
+> release.)
+
+We are talking about backports, not updates, so we don't care about
+versionning policy of updates. And backports can have higher version
+than 'release' repository of next version, that's what this thread is
+about.
+
+