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<H1>[Mageia-dev] RFC: Opening Backports (once again...)</H1>
<B>Angelo Naselli</B>
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<I>Sun Dec 11 11:41:02 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>sabato 10 dicembre 2011 alle 17:09, Thomas Backlund ha scritto:
><i> Sorry, buth this wont work in reality...
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</I>><i> Consider this:
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</I>><i> version X in Mageia 1
</I>><i> version X+1 in Cauldron
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</I>><i> version X+1 gets backported.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> version X+2 uploaded in Cauldron
</I>><i> version X+2 cant be backported (depends on updated libs/packages in
</I>><i> Cauldron, and we dont backport libs that can break working setups)
</I>><i>
</I>><i> version X+1 in backports need to be fixed (security/maintenance fix)
</I>><i> (here your logic breaks down, there is no place to fix it)
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</I>><i> And since we aim for quality backports, the maintainer may want to
</I>><i> stay with version X+1 in backports even if X+2 could be backported
</I>><i> if maintainer think X+2 isn't a good candidate for some reason.
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So, couldn't we consider backports in the same way as updates?
The only difference is that they go into another branch, and they
need to have a higher version than in updates and lower than cauldron.
Tests and validations follow the same rules, if a backport is not
validated won't be pushed.
Is that more work for QA? unfortunately yes, but i do hope tests
and validations can be done by more users interested in that
update/backport.
Why using backports instead of updates then? because for some reasons
we -or maintainers- don't want to push as update a new version.
I'm not really in favour of a strict release update, we have already
pacakges not doing that (leaf ones, or those that are a pain to patch like
ff for instance,...).
In such a way backports is not going to be seen as a potential breakage of
the system, but as a part of distro life.
A problem i can see though is if a maintainer decides that a version
that has been backported can become an update, even if it can be
managed by working on release version, that update is svn and HD room effect...
Angelo
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