Le Vendredi 9 Septembre 2011 00:26:51 Samuel Verschelde a écrit : > Le vendredi 9 septembre 2011 00:01:25, Juan Luis Baptiste a écrit : > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Samuel Verschelde > > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Packager: > > > - create bug report if not done already > > > > This even counts if the packager is the one with the initiative to > > do the backport ? I mean, if I regularly update my packages and > > also want to up backport them, now I'll also would have to create > > a bug report each time I want to do a backport of my own packages > > ? > > Yes, we really want to provide supported backports, and that means > there must be testing. Creating a bug report doesn't take more time > than testing the backport in Mageia 1, so I don't think this will be > a big overhead, apart for packagers who don't test their backports > themselves. > > To summarize : > - you are free to submit in backports_testing (so in a certain way the > package is available in Mageia 1 directly) We also need to remember that some backports available in backports_testing can also affect others packages (like some library update ).
-- Balcaen John
