Received from Manuel Hiebel on Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 06:32:04AM EDT: > Le mardi 04 octobre 2011 à 18:44 -0400, Lev Givon a écrit : > > Received from Manuel Hiebel on Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 06:39:58PM EDT: > > > Le mercredi 05 octobre 2011 à 00:35 +0200, Mageia Team a écrit : > > > > Name : terminator > > > > lebedov <lebedov> 0.96-1.mga1: > > > > + Revision: 151564 > > > > - Update to 0.96. > > > Why ? > > > > > > (And there are some python-* in updates_testing without bug report for > > > the QA.) > > > > Where should they go? > > according the policy: > > For the most part, an update should consist of a patched build of the > same version of the package released with the distribution, with a few > exceptions: > > * Software versions that are no longer supported upstream with > updates (firefox and thunderbird seem to fall into this category > these days) > * Software that is version-bound to an online service (games, > virus scanners?) and will only work with the latest version. > * We will make exceptions for packages that did not make it > into mga1 and are additions to the distribution, provided they > do not impact any other packages and can pass full QA. > > Updates are not the appropriate place for packages created to satisfy > certain user's urges for “the latest”. These types of builds belong in > backports. > > http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=updates_policy
Has any decision been made on when the backports repository be open for submissions? L.G.