[Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

Wed Jun 27 12:50:54 CEST 2012

AL13N skrev 27.6.2012 09:17:
+> Op dinsdag 26 juni 2012 23:15:16 schreef Sander Lepik:
+>> 26.06.2012 22:25, Thomas Backlund kirjutas:
+>>> * backports is supported as long as the rest of the release
+>>>
+>>>
+>>> Comments? Questions ?
+>>
+>> I think we should change the wording from "supported" to "tested". Currently
+>> we can "support" backport with a newer version of the backport. But i don't
+>> think it's a wise move to mark backports repo as an updates repo. So i
+>> don't see how we can _support_ backports. And QA has no time to deal with
+>> updates for backports (i mean to search for security holes in backports).
+>> But this can be discussed tomorrow.
+>
+> i agree, this is only a wording change, but is imho substantially different
+> from complete support, which is impossible.
+>
+
+Well, it's supposed to be supported with security and bugfixes.
+
+The support is about _providing_ the fixed packages.
+
+As to wether people install them or not, it's sort of the same as 
+current /updates. we provide them and suggest them to be updated,
+but we dont force anyone to install the updates.
+
+--
+Thomas
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