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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Proposal for backport process and policy</H1>
    <B>nicolas vigier</B> 
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    <I>Fri Aug  5 19:05:21 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Samuel Verschelde wrote:

&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> *** Old backports ***  
</I>&gt;<i> Remove old backports when newer ones are submitted
</I>&gt;<i> - otherwise we let people use old bugged or plagged with security issues 
</I>&gt;<i> packages, when they don't necessarily know that there are problems with them
</I>&gt;<i> - simpler choice : users have to choose between the version in updates and the 
</I>&gt;<i> one in backports, not more
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rpmdrake shows older versions too ?

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