[Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

Wed Jun 27 11:16:18 CEST 2012

Sander Lepik a écrit :
+> 27.06.2012 10:56, andre999 kirjutas:
+>    
+>> Or we could say "partially supported", or "low-priority support".
+>> Since the support is more than just testing.
+>>      
+> How is it more than testing? QA will test if the package installs w/o conflicts + will check
+> that it at least starts. But that's about it. No deeper testing like with Firefox or with
+> LibreOffice.
+>    
+
+Ok, testing by QA is less detailed.  After preliminary testing before 
+reaching QA, which presumably is more involved.  Complex packages like 
+Firefox or LibreOffice necessarily need more testing in any case.
+But don't forget that the packager is committed to providing security 
+updates and bug fixes, much as for regular packages.  Which is more than 
+"just testing".
+
+>> Nominally, it is almost as much as regular packages, but with a lower priority.
+>>      
+> Regular packages get updates in special repo. Backports won't - so can't agree here either. :)
+>    
+
+The advantage of separate release repos when looking for updates, is 
+that scanning all the (much more numerous) release packages is avoided.  
+Otherwise (as far as updates are concerned), one could put the release 
+and regular updates in the same repo.
+Backports will be relatively limited in number, and the release repo for 
+backports would be necessarily empty.  So there is no point in two repos 
+for backports.  Backports are essentially updates.  (Albeit a special 
+kind.)  That is, changes from the release.
+
+We only want to install a backport if expressly selected, or a 
+corresponding backport is already installed.
+Much as we would only want to install a package from an update repo if 
+it is expressly selected, or a corresponding update or release package 
+is already installed.
+> --
+> Sander
+>
+>    
+-- 
+André
+
+