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<B>Greg Harris</B>
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<I>Thu Oct 7 17:14:57 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE> On 10/7/2010 11:00 AM, Michael Scherer wrote:
><i> Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 à 10:22 -0400, Greg Harris a écrit :
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</I>>><i> You hit the point precisely. Mandriva's backports was a terrific idea
</I>>><i> that does not succeed because (1) it is disabled by default and the
</I>>><i> means to enable it as an update medium are made obscure by intention and
</I>>><i> design and (2) the strange attitude taken, by some maintainers at least,
</I>>><i> that anyone using backports is on their own ("Backports are not
</I>>><i> supported!").
</I>><i> Well, when the backport was made without asking to developers first ( as
</I>><i> it happened with gwibber back at mandriva ), yes, the only thing I can
</I>><i> say is "I do not support it, because I didn't do it, nor was able to
</I>><i> test it correctly'.
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</I>><i> If we tell "we do not have the ressources to fully test a backport, so
</I>><i> let's not do it", people are unhappy.
</I>><i> If we say "ok, here it is, but we didn't test, you are on your own",
</I>><i> people are unhappy.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> As said by sinnerBOFH, if people want better backports, this requires
</I>><i> more ressources, there is no magic.
</I>><i>
</I>I certainly agree, and mean no disrespect to you and other maintainers
who generously contribute their time and energy. But the Mandriva
implementation of backports is not a solution for those who want a
continuously updated distro. It works for me and I appreciate that it's
there. But if you are going to design a new and appealing alternative,
the effort required to make backports really known and useful needs to
be taken into account.
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