On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:43:35 -0500 Juan Luis Baptiste <juan...@mageia.org> wrote: > > Sure, you cannot be save of regressions, but what makes you think you > > are smarter than upstream? What makes you so sure that not the one > > commit you add as a patch to your package is the one that causes the > > regressions? > > > > Because as I said earlier, we backport the "commit" that fixes that > single issue, based on the info found on the bugzilla report of the > upstream project.
But how do you choose which patches you want to backport from the stream of bugfixes done by upstream? Should the packager monitor all bug fixing activity? (sure (s)he *can*, but that's a lot of work) Just because someone doesn't file a bug against Mageia doesn't mean the bug doesn't bother anybody, because many users don't report upstream bugs to the distro's tracker. (also, other users don't bother reporting bugs at all :-)) Regards Antoine.