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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)</H1>
<B>Samuel Verschelde</B>
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<I>Fri Jun 8 13:39:07 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Le vendredi 8 juin 2012 13:31:30, Angelo Naselli a écrit :
><i> > If there is security issue then you have to fix it on cauldron too
</I>><i> > (usually with new version, so you can backport it to stable version). At
</I>><i> > least before release. And after backports are closed you can upgrade to
</I>><i> > latest stable version (for example mga3) and get patched version this
</I>><i> > way. I don't see the problem here.
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</I>><i> Well I can't see how we can close a bp since we say we give 9 months of
</I>><i> supporting version. If we support bp, we also need to provides fixing at
</I>><i> least. But i got your point, it's a kind o release freeze for bp for the
</I>><i> mga n-2.
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We support each release 18 month at least (that is, unless we manage to do
more in the future), so his proposal means stopping backports support too
early.
Samuel
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