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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Missing packages in Mageia 1. How to backport? (was: Finalizing update process)</H1>
<B>Wolfgang Bornath</B>
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<I>Fri Jun 10 13:44:29 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>2011/6/10 Michael Scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>>:
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</I>><i> We have used backports in the past for that, and I see no reason to
</I>><i> change that.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> If the problem is that backports were too buggy in the past, then we
</I>><i> should fix backports process, not bypassing them.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> And if we start by pushing new version in update, people will soon
</I>><i> wonder why the new version of X is in updates, while the new version of
</I>><i> Y is not, just because we didn't have X in release and Y was there.
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Problem I see:
So far (in Mandriva), example: we have used 2010.0/main/backports to
offer new versions of software which had an older version in 2010/main
but the newer version in 2010.1/main, or as the name says: backporting
a newer version of a software from the current release to a previous
release, as often used for Firefox.
For Mageia it means, /backports should hold backports of software
which has an older version in 1/core but a newer version in cauldron.
If we put new software (aka missing packages) in /backports and the
user activates /backports he also runs the risk that existing packages
of his stable installation will be replaced by real backports of newer
versions, backported from Cauldron - which he may not want to do.
I wonder why we do not put these "missing packages" in /testing and
after a while in /core or /non-free or /tainted (wherever they
belong). These packages are software which were supposed to be in
/core or /non-free or /tainted, they were just forgotten|came too
late|whatever for Mageia 1 release freeze.
--
wobo
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