'Twas brillig, and Samuel Verschelde at 29/07/11 09:32 did gyre and gimble: > Le vendredi 29 juillet 2011 10:25:02, Colin Guthrie a écrit : >> 'Twas brillig, and Samuel Verschelde at 28/07/11 13:11 did gyre and gimble: >>> Le jeudi 28 juillet 2011 13:02:26, Colin Guthrie a écrit : >>>> 'Twas brillig, and Samuel Verschelde at 28/07/11 09:08 did gyre and > gimble: >>>>> We have updates blocked by this release 0 issue, so we need a quick >>>>> decision. I propose that if tomorrow nobody reacted against the >>>>> proposal, it will be adopted. >>>> >>>> Personally, I would vote to keep it the way it is with the 0 releases. >>>> >>>> I'm not convinced that any of the arguments represent real world >>>> problems. >>>> >>>> Col >>> >>> Here is a question I got yesterday, which the proposal solves, but that's >>> not a very common issue and maybe the 0 releases way works with it too : >>> >>> If we had imported it before mageia 1 was released, we would have had >>> cultivation-9-0.20071217.6.mga1 in mageia 1 (a pre-release). >>> >>> Then suppose we want to update it to the final 9 release in both cauldron >>> and mageia 1 : we have cultivation-9-1.mga1 in cauldron. But what >>> release should we use in updates for mageia 1 ? >>> >>> cultivation-9-0.1.mga1 doesn't work because cultivation-9-0.1.mga1 < >>> cultivation-9-0.20071217.6.mga1 >>> >>> Is there a way to do it right with a 0 release ? >> >> Yeah, I concede that this particular scenario would cause problems :s >> >> Fair point, well made :D > > Does it mean that you agree with the proposal ? Not that I badly want it to > be > adopted, but I really would like to unlock the current updates in the pipe :)
If it helps speed the process, then sure, I will add my official support for an amendment to the policy as per misc's original mail (I don't think my opinion carries that much weight tho'! :p) Col -- Colin Guthrie mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
