[Mageia-dev] RFC: Opening Backports (once again...)

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op dinsdag 06 december 2011 00:29:03 schreef Anssi Hannula:
> On 06.12.2011 00:56, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> > Now,
> > 
> > here comes the question about backports once again.
[...]
> > Using a separate branch is also a cleaner way of providing
> > backports, and makes it easy to separate changes needed only
> > for Cauldron (or backports).
> 
> Hm, how does this help with enabling backports (i.e. compared to simply
> using cauldron repo)?

not sure, but i thought the problem we're facing now was that submitting from 
cauldron to backports was a "problem" in security scripting, ie: not being 
able to specify 2 sources? than this would solve that problem?