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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Missing packages in Mageia 1. How to backport?</H1>
<B>Wolfgang Bornath</B>
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<I>Thu Jun 9 12:03:44 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>2011/6/9 Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>>:
><i> 'Twas brillig, and Christiaan Welvaart at 09/06/11 10:40 did gyre and
</I>><i> gimble:
</I>>><i> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
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</I>>>><i> otoh, perhaps a missing package is also a bugfix... maybe we could
</I>>>><i> file bug
</I>>>><i> reports for missing packages and go through the updates route...
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</I>>><i> Filing bug reports is not a bad idea, even if the new package will go to
</I>>><i> backports. Just explain a little why it is important (to fix this in a
</I>>><i> stable release).
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</I>>><i> We probably need a new "version" in bugzilla because mga1+backports is
</I>>><i> basically a new distro. A bug in backports shouldn't be filed against
</I>>><i> "1" IMHO.
</I>
There's already a lot of requests for missing packages in Bugzilla,
the question about filing such bug reports was answered long ago.
><i> As I said in my original mail I really don't think backports is the
</I>><i> right approach.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I'd prefer to have a 3rd party repo than abuse backports to get the
</I>><i> missing packages.
</I>
I thought we will try to avoid 3rd party repos?
><i> I think updates would be the right place.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Perhaps we can make the submission process check to see if there already
</I>><i> exists a package and if not, allow packagers to submit directly to
</I>><i> core/updates? That way the first version of the package will make it to
</I>><i> updates but subsequent changes will have to go via QA?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> While the "oops I messed up the first version" problem could happen, it
</I>><i> would at least keep the burden on the packager for the majority of cases
</I>><i> which is how we want it (from my understanding of the previous messages
</I>><i> on this thread).
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