Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-contrib (276 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le mercredi 11 février 2009, à 15:21 +0100, Michal Vyskocil a écrit :
> On Friday 30 of January 2009 12:40:00 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
> I'm not sure that we want and need to be strict rule. Afaik only one 
> community 
> based distro has this policy - the Debian, but they have only *one* stable 
> release at time. And Debian community (I'm talking about package maintainers 
> especially) is probably more experienced and bigger than openSUSE, so why we 
> want more annoying work (which backporting of fixes is) for openSUSE 
> contributors than Debian?
>
> Fedora is more close to openSUSE release cycle and it's also community opened 
> and allow [1] the version update after release, so why not be able to do this 
> in Contrib?

Actually, I think Fedora is the exception, not Debian :-) But maybe I'm
wrong.
I'm not opposed to version updates on a frozen branch, but this has to
be very careful. It's really a matter of making sure it doesn't break
anything.

> BTW: I suggest adapt a Fedora Maintainers Policy [2] for Contrib, because 
> those things needs to be written!

Nod. Actually, it makes sense for openSUSE in general, not just Contrib
;-)

Vincent

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