Le mardi 14 juin 2011 20:00:39, Anne nicolas a écrit : > 2011/6/14 Wolfgang Bornath <molc...@googlemail.com> > > > 2011/6/14 Anne nicolas <enn...@mageia.org>: > > > I guess because of Mandriva policy. We did provide backports but it was > > > explicitely said to be unsupported. "Use it at your own risks" > > > We may have to rewrite this and make things clear > > > > Do you mean, just telling people that it is no risk or do you mean a > > change which lessens the risk? > > not at all > > > As Michael wrote earlier in this thread, if there was the risk to > > break the system by low quality of backports then the quality has to > > be improved (not his own words but that's how I understood it). > > > exactly what I had in mind. Having backports can allow choice between > "the last version of" and "the stable version with which I'm happy > with". But indeed we need more quality in backport rpms that is policy and > tests.
Few words could make me more happy about the potential future status of our backports. And if backports have a bad reputation among our users, maybe we should rename updates to "maintenance updates" and backports to "feature updates" ? Samuel