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<H1>[Mageia-dev] please stop doing "bugs" for updating magia 1</H1>
<B>Florian Hubold</B>
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<I>Wed Jan 11 09:43:33 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>Am 11.01.2012 08:57, schrieb Buchan Milne:
><i> On Wednesday, 11 January 2012 06:32:50 Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
</I>>><i> On Wednesday 11 January 2012 03:28, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:
</I>>>><i> I mean, stop asking updates for mageia 1 just because there is another
</I>>>><i> newversion.
</I>>><i> May I suggest that next time, say it in so many words.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Some of us are not good at reading between the lines, and your original
</I>>><i> post was written in a way that indicated that it was not clear on that you
</I>>><i> where talking about just what you said you where talking about in your
</I>>><i> last post. :-)=
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</I>>><i> And I agree with you. Updating packages in a released product just because
</I>>><i> a new version is out is not a valid reason by itself. If on the other hand
</I>>><i> it fixes some bugs or security holes, it's worth considering.
</I>><i> Resolving the backports situation would however provide a means for users who
</I>><i> want to track upstream (for various reasons, such as being able to get support
</I>><i> from upstreams who don't really want to support 'historic' releases) without:
</I>><i> 1)Forcing all users to get the update
</I>><i> 2)Requiring excessive QA work
</I>><i> 3)Requiring bug reports for each update
</I>Well, 2) and 3) are not valid reasons here, because backports should get
a similar amount of QA testing as normal update candidates, and for
the updates policy require a bugreport for validation through QA.
Check <A HREF="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Backports_policy#Steps">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Backports_policy#Steps</A>
and <A HREF="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy</A>
><i> Regards,
</I>><i> Buchan
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