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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:21:16PM +0100, Michal Vyskocil wrote:
As contrib:<release> is frozen (cite: "After the branch no version updates are allowed anymore") - is there really no chance to upgrade a package?
We are mimicking Factory. So the same rules apply.
2) What about orphaned/unfixed packages? If a package fails in contrib:factory or needs a security fix in the contrib:<release> repos - what's the expected response time?
ASAP :)
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?
I don't see any big advantages of this rule in Contrib, which contains at least leaf packages (like apg, or gle-graphics). I suppose we should be less strict and allow a version update in frozen repository when it will be necessary.
I agree with Michal (and some others) that disallowing bugfixing by version updates might be too strict rule and should be relaxed a bit - e.g. only for leaf packages (leaf withing the scope of Contrib), prefer minor updates (if possible) etc. As well as Michal, I don't see any good reason of being so strict. May be I'm just blind :) -- Best regards / s pozdravem Petr Uzel, Packages maintainer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: puzel@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 964 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-contrib+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-contrib+help@opensuse.org