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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two</H1>
<B>Thomas Backlund</B>
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<I>Sat Nov 27 19:23:59 CET 2010</I>
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<PRE>Jerome Quelin skrev 27.11.2010 19:11:
><i> On 10/11/27 17:59 +0100, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
</I>>><i> i agree, the less repositories the easier it'll be.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> however, core is for all the "maintained" packages, extra is for the
</I>>><i> unmaintained packages that build ok.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> what is a "maintained" package? no maintainer, no commits since x
</I>><i> months, not buildable? what if we move to packages being maintained by
</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">foopkg at packages.mageia.org</A> aliases?
</I>><i>
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if maintainer db says nomaintainer@ it belong in /extra/
><i> what are the rules to move a package from extra to core, and vice-versa?
</I>><i> who can do it? will it be done automatically? will this imply a rebuild
</I>><i> for the package?
</I>><i>
</I>
If a maintainer picks up maintainership of a package in /extra/ it will
be rebuilt and moved to /core/ asap.
if a package in /core/ ends up nomaintainer@, then after a "grace
period" (1-3 months ?) it will be moved to /extra/.
and sometime before RC1 or so, any momaintainer@ package in /core/ will
get moved to /extra/ as for a release the /core/ should only contain
maintained packages.
><i> what are the dependency rules? can a core package depend on an extra
</I>><i> package? or with a buildrequires?
</I>><i>
</I>
No.
If you need to build against a package in /extra/, either pick up the
maintainership of it, or try to get someone other to maintain it.
then it can get into /core/
><i> and, more importantly: what is the advantage? that is, what does that
</I>><i> bring you, except more admin?
</I>><i>
</I>
QA!
and enduser satisfaction.
Just take a look on many bugreports in MDV Bugzilla.
If the report is against a nomaintainer@ package, currently Triage
pretty much only can state "thanks for your report, but since it has
no maintainer, nothing will probably happend" wich is not good answer
for a person that have taken the time to report a bug.
By having the /extra/ disabled by default, and a popup notifying the
user if he enables it that the packages are "unmaintained" he knows
he's "on his own"
><i>
</I>><i> sorry, consider me not impressed by this idea. or maybe it's just that i
</I>><i> failed to see the benefits. please enlighten me.
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Thomas
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