Wolfgang Bornath skrev 10.6.2011 14:44:
2011/6/10 Michael Scherer<[email protected]>:
We have used backports in the past for that, and I see no reason to
change that.
If the problem is that backports were too buggy in the past, then we
should fix backports process, not bypassing them.
And if we start by pushing new version in update, people will soon
wonder why the new version of X is in updates, while the new version of
Y is not, just because we didn't have X in release and Y was there.
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.
well, media/*/release tree is frozen, so _nothing_ new goes in there.
So the path would then be */updates_testing -> */updates _if_ we decide
that's the way to go...
Problem is that a "missing" package introcuced in updates also can
introduce regressions with wrong obsoletes/provides or %pre/%post scripts.
So it has to go through the same qa as the rest of the stuff heading for
*/updates
So question becomes, do we have enough qa/security people to make it work ?
And if we introduce "filtering" on what goes in and what does not,
then who decides ?
--
Thomas
