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<B>Antoine Pitrou</B>
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<I>Wed Jan 11 17:43:35 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:51:55 +0100
Guillaume Rousse
<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">guillomovitch at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
><i> Le 11/01/2012 16:09, Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
</I>><i> > As a Mageia user I would expect Mageia to package significant *bugfix
</I>><i> > releases* and ship them in the updates for the stable distro.
</I>><i> You'd rather read the current update policy, rather than expect blind
</I>><i> assertions:
</I>><i> <A HREF="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy</A>
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Thanks.
><i> > For example, it would be nice if an up-to-date Mageia 1 system had
</I>><i> > Python 2.7.2 rather than Python 2.7.1 (not a deal-breaker, of course,
</I>><i> > but nice). There's more than a hundred bug fixes between the two
</I>><i> > versions and I don't expect Mageia to have independently fixed many of
</I>><i> > these bugs.
</I>><i> A bug may vary from a typo in a man page to a critical security update,
</I>><i> which make the number of claimed bugfix a poor decision metric. A
</I>><i> non-regression ensurance would be a better one, but it's quite difficult
</I>><i> to assert.
</I>
As both an user and an upstream developer, I would not expect a Mageia
packager to know better than the upstream developers what can
constitute a regression, and what is a good compromise to fix or not.
At least for well-maintained upstream projects, that is :-)
><i> Welcome to our new QA team volonteer :)
</I>
Agreed that my advice would be more constructive if I got involved, but
I don't have the time for that.
Regards
Antoine.
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