22.06.2012 21:10, AL13N kirjutas: > Op vrijdag 22 juni 2012 19:34:54 schreef Sander Lepik: >> 22.06.2012 18:59, AL13N kirjutas: >>> Op vrijdag 22 juni 2012 11:58:10 schreef Claire Robinson: >>>> I think you are misunderstanding the kind of support we can offer for >>>> backports. See Thomas's email. We will test a package installs and >>>> works. We don't plan on supporting updates against already installed >>>> backports, at least none that I'm aware of and if so then we maybe ought >>>> to rethink opening backports altogether. >>> exactly, at this point, since noone thinks having supported backports is >>> feasably, i think we should just have backports being unsupported, less QA >>> that way too. >> We support them only that much that they can be installed and basic >> functionality works (and this was needed because at Mandriva times some >> backports just didn't work at all and so backports got bad reputation - we >> wanted to fix that part). For me it never was more than that. > but, you cannot guarantee install without errors, as we spoke of above. Why not? At the moment when backport is submitted from backports_testing to backports it must be installable. If something will break after then it's another problem. But i don't remember any such problems from Mandriva times.
-- Sander
