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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Opening backports (was Re: [Mageia-sysadm] Using SQL database for youri)</H1>
<B>Samuel Verschelde</B>
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<I>Sat Oct 1 01:14:15 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Le samedi 1 octobre 2011 00:57:35, blind Pete a écrit :
><i> on Sat, 1 Oct 2011 08:05
</I>><i> in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.mageia.devel
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Maarten Vanraes wrote:
</I>><i> > Op vrijdag 30 september 2011 23:35:40 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
</I>><i> >> Le jeudi 29 septembre 2011 21:10:42, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
</I>><i> [snip]
</I>><i>
</I>><i> >> > Also, the sooner we have backports, the less there will be external
</I>><i> >> > third- party repos with all the problems (upgrade, support) that
</I>><i> >> > causes. There already are, don't let them too much space and rather
</I>><i> >> > invite their packagers to backport *inside* (as long as they stay
</I>><i> >> > within the policy of course).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> [snip]
</I>><i>
</I>><i> >> If needed, the tremendous amount of packages in Blogdrake's 3rd party
</I>><i> >> media shows how much backports are needed by users, whatever we as
</I>><i> >> packagers can think of it.
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> I'm still convinced that opening backports right now, using one of my 2
</I>><i> >> proposals (if I haven't overlooked a technical difficulty), would be an
</I>><i> >> important step forward for us.
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> Best regards
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> Samuel
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > I have to agree, if opening backports brings in more packagers who are
</I>><i> > likely to integrate well AND bring in more users AND likely would step
</I>><i> > up and maintain similar packages, we should help their effort and not
</I>><i> > get our community too splintered, even though updates _is_ more
</I>><i> > important than backports.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Potentially silly idea:
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Would it be worth having backports-supported and backports-unsupported,
</I>><i> or backports and backports-untested, or backports and backports-3rd-party?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> You could occasionally move things in either direction between
</I>><i> supported and unsupported.
</I>
You already have them: backports and backports_testing. backports is
supported, backports_testing isn't (equivalent to your backports-untested).
However, packages sent to backports_testing must respect the backports policy,
which is a difference with 3rd party media where we don't know what policy is
applied.
Best regards
Samuel Verschelde
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