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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Missing packages in Mageia 1. How to backport?</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 09/06/11 11:03 did gyre and gimble:
><i> 2011/6/9 Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>>:
</I>>><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:
</I>>>><i>
</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).
</I>>>><i>
</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>><i>
</I>><i> There's already a lot of requests for missing packages in Bugzilla,
</I>><i> the question about filing such bug reports was answered long ago.
</I>><i>
</I>>><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>
</I>><i> I thought we will try to avoid 3rd party repos?
</I>
Yes we did, but I still think it would be better than using backports as
backports is very specifically "not-supported updates" and if users have
to add that media to get the missing packages then IMO this is very
dangerous. Hence my statement that it would *prefer* to use a 3rd party
repo over using backports as it is safer for the user. It doesn't mean
to say I like the idea in an absolute sense.
My *preferred* (i.e. absolute, not relative) is to use updates, but
without the QA burden and overhead.
Hope that clarifies.
Col
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