[Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic

Sun Mar 11 13:54:31 CET 2012

Le dimanche 11 mars 2012 à 14:29 +0200, Sander Lepik a écrit :
+> 11.03.2012 14:21, Michael Scherer kirjutas:
+> > Le samedi 10 mars 2012 à 10:26 +0100, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+> >> Hi
+> >>
+> >> please let in xonotic-0.6.0
+> >> It's just a game that impacts nothing else.
+> > Niet.
+> >
+> > That's bugfix or security fixes.
+> Honestly, WTF?!
+> 
+> It's a new package. How much harm can it do? 
+
+The same as any packages. What did people didn't understand about "focus
+on bugfixes" ?
+
+> I would understand this rejection if we would 
+> have backports enabled. But we don't. Some point release can cause more trouble than this 
+> package. 
+
+If by "point release", you mean "version upgrade in a minor version",
+that's also blocked.
+
+If by "point release", you mean "rebuild with spec change", that's much
+easier to revert and detect, since there is less changes to look at.
+And that's a part where packagers can realistially check. That's not the
+case for most tarballs where there is several changes for a new version.
+
+Frankly, there is a time where we should say "this is the version we
+choose for the release". We are not doing a rolling release.
+So either you agree that there is a time to say "stop" to upgrade, be it
+on the day of release or before, and think that the time we choosed is
+not the right time, and in which case, they should clearly tell. Or you
+want a rolling release, and again, you have to clearly say "I want to
+have a rolling release" and I will answer "there was some threads in the
+past" 
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+