Le mardi 26 juillet 2011 18:42:05, Michael Scherer a écrit : [snip] > > Yet, the problem would also be there for regular non-version upgrade > ( ie, if we have foo-2-2.mga2 in cauldron and stable, and that we need > to rebuild on stable and not on cauldron, we face the same problem ), so > using 0 is a incomplete solution to the issue, and the only solution is > to rebuild in cauldron, and such problem should better be detected by > youri.
Very good point, this is a decisive argument to me. > > So, the conclusion is that we should test ugprade rather than assuming > that it will just work because we placed a 0 instead of a 1 somewhere. Ok for me provided we put in place the necessary processes to avoid upgrade problems (Youri::Submit::Test::Precedence for example). > > Now, using 0 prevent us from having a simple way of seeing what > prerelease we ship and that should be updated to latest stable ( as this > seems to me quite desirable ). Good point too. > > This is also inconsistent with the practice we had of backporting from > cooker ( as the initial goal at Mandriva was to have 0 modifications > from cooker to backports to reduce the load ). And if we ship something > in update and in backports, we would have the same packages with 2 > different releases, and that doesn't seems a good idea. Worse, the backport would be preferred to the update :/ You should have said all this right from the start rather than assuming that we would have all these elements in mind :) Samuel
