Le samedi 16 juillet 2011 à 14:31 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit : > On 16 July 2011 03:02, Michael Scherer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le mercredi 13 juillet 2011 à 12:11 +0200, nicolas vigier a écrit : > >> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Samuel Verschelde wrote: > >> > >> > Le mercredi 13 juillet 2011 00:30:41, nicolas vigier a écrit : > >> > > Hello. > >> > > > >> > > mgarepo version 1.9.11 adds maintdb command : > >> > > > >> > > $ mgarepo maintdb --help > >> > > Usage: > >> > > Take maintainership of one package : > >> > > mgarepo maintdb set [package] [login] > >> > > > >> > > Remove yourself from maintainer of a package : > >> > > mgarepo maintdb set [package] nobody > >> > > > >> > > See who is maintainer of a package : > >> > > mgarepo maintdb get [package] > >> > > > >> > > See the list of all packages with their maintainer : > >> > > mgarepo maintdb get > >> > > >> > I used in in Mageia 1 using the package in updates_testing and it works > >> > well. > >> > >> Ok, it's moved to updates now. > > > > Wasn't it against the policy ( ie, this is neither a bugfix, this is a > > version update, providing feature ) ? > > > > That is a bug fix; is there any other way a Mageia packager running > mga1 can set/unset himself as a maintainer of a package in the > official Mageia repos?
Yes : - using cauldron in a vm, a chroot - backporting by himself the package Packagers convenience do not seems a reason to bypass our policies. > That is not a "feature", that's a "basic requirement" in repository > access and management tool for a distro, that was missing and is now > available, that warrants an official update, IMHO... Everybody has a different vision of what is a basic requirement, and the problem with such reasoning is that we first start to say "this is not a new feature", and then, someone say "I need to have this in stable and like $FOO, I think that's a basic requirement, so we should backport/upgrade". All packagers should have a cauldron installed somewhere, or that mean they cannot test any packages or try to reproduce any bugs on it ( ie, do the job of a package maintainer ). And so if they do not have, I do not think we should encourage them to do so. -- Michael Scherer
