zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2012-June/016568.html


1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
 <HEAD>
   <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)
   </TITLE>
   <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" >
   <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Backports%20policy%20clarification%20%28and%20discussion%29&In-Reply-To=%3C1u80b9-i39.ln1%40psd.motzarella.org%3E">
   <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow">
   <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
   <LINK REL="Previous"  HREF="016424.html">
   <LINK REL="Next"  HREF="016428.html">
 </HEAD>
 <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)</H1>
    <B>blind Pete</B> 
    <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Backports%20policy%20clarification%20%28and%20discussion%29&In-Reply-To=%3C1u80b9-i39.ln1%40psd.motzarella.org%3E"
       TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)">0123peter at gmail.com
       </A><BR>
    <I>Sun Jun 17 08:09:37 CEST 2012</I>
    <P><UL>
        <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="016424.html">[Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)
</A></li>
        <LI>Next message: <A HREF="016428.html">[Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)
</A></li>
         <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> 
              <a href="date.html#16568">[ date ]</a>
              <a href="thread.html#16568">[ thread ]</a>
              <a href="subject.html#16568">[ subject ]</a>
              <a href="author.html#16568">[ author ]</a>
         </LI>
       </UL>
    <HR>  
<!--beginarticle-->
<PRE>Angelo Naselli wrote:

&gt;<i> marted&#236; 12 giugno 2012 alle 08:25, blind Pete ha scritto:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Some packages annoyingly have two current versions.  When that
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> happens it seems perfectly reasonable to just pick one, but if
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> anyone is ambitious enough to try two at once, this would be a
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> mechanism to handle it.
</I>&gt;<i> Are you serious? Here it's not only a pakcage issue, what you're
</I>&gt;<i> proposing to change package contents :/
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> foo-1.0.mga1 - (core)      -&gt; /bin/foo
</I>&gt;<i> foo-1.2.mga1 - (backports) -&gt; /bin/foo
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> they can't be installed togheter, and changing
</I>&gt;<i> package names would not solve this issue, but
</I>&gt;<i> add packagers problems like conflict or obsoleting
</I>&gt;<i> and upgradability issues....
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> /me is confused
</I>
FireFox is availible in an Extended Support Release version, a standard 
version, a beta version and Aurora.  

I was suggesting ESR in Core and, if anyone wants to do the work, 
standard in BackPorts.  

-- 
blind Pete
Sig goes here...  

</PRE>


<!--endarticle-->
    <HR>
    <P><UL>
        <!--threads-->
	<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="016424.html">[Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)
</A></li>
	<LI>Next message: <A HREF="016428.html">[Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)
</A></li>
         <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> 
              <a href="date.html#16568">[ date ]</a>
              <a href="thread.html#16568">[ thread ]</a>
              <a href="subject.html#16568">[ subject ]</a>
              <a href="author.html#16568">[ author ]</a>
         </LI>
       </UL>

<hr>
<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev
mailing list</a><br>
</body></html>