Op vrijdag 8 juni 2012 19:56:52 schreef Samuel Verschelde: > Le vendredi 8 juin 2012 19:35:28, Sander Lepik a écrit : > > I don't think that we need to support backports that much. It should be > > clear that backports might not get all security updates. We should > > guarantee that it's possible to upgrade to next stable release and that's > > about it. We really don't have resources for more. > > That backports are supported is the key point of the policy, which was > discussed and validated months ago. It's not a "let's throw in random > packages" media, it's part of the distribution. Resources will limit the > number of different packages we are able to backport AND maintain, not the > quality of our support. > > So I'd like us to discuss the way to attain this objective rather than try > to force users needs to fit with what's simpler for us. Solutions probably > revolve around taking backports into account during upgrade, which is > doable. Hard, maybe, but doable: > - online upgrade can use backports media for packages not coming from > release. If we don't know where a package comes from we can start storing > that information somewhere, or guess (any package with higher version > installed than that in target distro's updates should be updated using > backports media). - DVD could detect packages which can't be updated (in > fact, it should do it already since there are already, DVDs having limited > space), and warn about them. DVD upgrade should also, if possible, detect > dependency problems *before* actually upgrading. Then if network is > available ask the user if they want to use online media for safer upgrade. > > Samuel
sounds like someone wants to make a Feature wiki page
