On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:51:55 +0100 Guillaume Rousse <guillomovi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le 11/01/2012 16:09, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : > > As a Mageia user I would expect Mageia to package significant *bugfix > > releases* and ship them in the updates for the stable distro. > You'd rather read the current update policy, rather than expect blind > assertions: > https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Updates_policy
Thanks. > > For example, it would be nice if an up-to-date Mageia 1 system had > > Python 2.7.2 rather than Python 2.7.1 (not a deal-breaker, of course, > > but nice). There's more than a hundred bug fixes between the two > > versions and I don't expect Mageia to have independently fixed many of > > these bugs. > A bug may vary from a typo in a man page to a critical security update, > which make the number of claimed bugfix a poor decision metric. A > non-regression ensurance would be a better one, but it's quite difficult > to assert. As both an user and an upstream developer, I would not expect a Mageia packager to know better than the upstream developers what can constitute a regression, and what is a good compromise to fix or not. At least for well-maintained upstream projects, that is :-) > Welcome to our new QA team volonteer :) Agreed that my advice would be more constructive if I got involved, but I don't have the time for that. Regards Antoine.