Le mercredi 14 septembre 2011 à 17:50 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit : > Le mercredi 14 septembre 2011 16:46:19, Michael scherer a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > so tonight, meeting time ( packager, bug triager, QA, and all > > are invited, and there will be free food in the fridge ( not > > mine, but yours, of course )). > > > > Planning : > > - security updates ( ennael || misc ) > > - maintainers assignation ( misc ) > > - apprentice ( andre ) > > > > And that would be IMHO enough for this evening ( short, etc ) > > I don't know if it's the right meeting for it, but I would like us to talk > again about bug 2317 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317 that blocks > updates > We tried to previously chosen solution "link from Release to Updates", but we > run into dependency nightmares such as in the end the solution would almost > lead to copy the whole Release media into Updates. > > Without proof of the contrary, I tend to think that fixing MageiaUpdate would > be a lot less work than the workaround we are trying to use which : > - still needs work from the sysadmins > - gives a lot of work to QA, that would be better used for testing the updates > - forces us to link a lot of packages if we really want to make sure the > update never fails > > What I would like is a firm and courageous decision (we already talked a lot > of > this issue without much progress until now) that we set a date (soon) before > which this problem will be completely solved, whatever the way. > > We really would like to have this issue solved and allow to concentrate on > other important stuff (such as security updates for example).
If no one does the patch, nothing will move. And I doubt that telling "do the patch" would make it appear, but I can try : Samuel, can you produce a fix for the 18th september ? ( if it doesn't work, imagine me looking at you, but more focused, until that work ) -- Michael Scherer
