Le Jeudi 09 Mars 2006 21:18, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
> Anssi Hannula wrote:
> > Also, do we agree that *all* packages should be backported to latest
> > stable (e.g. 2006.0)? As the chroots are now offline, many rpms do not
> > get rebuilt for anything else than cooker-i586. I do have scripts that
> > allow easy rebuilding of packages for other targets, but as I'm not able
> > to thouroughly test every package, I'm hesitant to do uploads unless you
> > confirm they should all be backported. If they do not, we also need a
> > way to inform the bots on which targets the srpm should be build.
>
> Comments, please. This question is critical if you still want to get
> 2006.0 backports of PLF packages (or want not to).
I am against version backport in the main repository :
- some people prefer to have fixed and stable release, for deployment purpose,
because thing backported have less testing ( even they have sufficient
testing, but you can never be sure ), or for whatever reason they have.
I prefer to not update anything on some workstations, especially if doing a
roolback is not possible because the old package was removed.
- it introduces complexity in testing and building, and in the spec file.
- it is not consistant, because some people do not backport ( because they
cannot test, do not want, cannot ), some backport for all release, some
backport for the latest one, etc.
However, I know that people want backports, usually gui stuff ( xchat, for
whatever reason, kde, etc ).
I will not discuss the reason as I do backport myself some applications when I
need to ( server stuff usually )
I do it for myself because I know
1) I can roll back
2) I can debug as I do it for stuff I know
3) it will be tested by me
4) I do not take responsability of breaking someone else system
So yes, we should offer a way for people to have backport if the maintener
want to offer, but I would prefer to also offer a way to not have backport.
Mandriva suffer from the same problem, and we should try to have a common
policy on this subject.
I suggest a separate media, or a separate version, like ${VERSION}_updated/ on
the mirrors.
--
Michael Scherer
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