Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal for backport process and policy

2011-08-05 Thread Samuel Verschelde
Le vendredi 5 août 2011 19:05:21, nicolas vigier a écrit : > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Samuel Verschelde wrote: > > *** Old backports *** > > Remove old backports when newer ones are submitted > > - otherwise we let people use old bugged or plagged with security issues > > packages, when they don't nece

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal for backport process and policy

2011-08-05 Thread nicolas vigier
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Samuel Verschelde wrote: > > *** Old backports *** > Remove old backports when newer ones are submitted > - otherwise we let people use old bugged or plagged with security issues > packages, when they don't necessarily know that there are problems with them > - simpler cho

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal for backport process and policy

2011-07-29 Thread blind Pete
on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:20 in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.mageia.devel Samuel Verschelde wrote: > Le mardi 26 juillet 2011 07:56:36, blind Pete a écrit : >> on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:34 >> in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.mageia.devel >> Samuel Verschelde wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> > *** Old

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal for backport process and policy

2011-07-26 Thread andre999
Samuel Verschelde a écrit : Le mardi 26 juillet 2011 07:56:36, blind Pete a écrit : on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:34 in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.mageia.devel Samuel Verschelde wrote: [snip] *** Old backports *** Remove old backports when newer ones are submitted - otherwise we let people use

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal for backport process and policy

2011-07-26 Thread Samuel Verschelde
Le mardi 26 juillet 2011 07:56:36, blind Pete a écrit : > on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:34 > in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.mageia.devel > Samuel Verschelde wrote: > > [snip] > > > *** Old backports *** > > Remove old backports when newer ones are submitted > > - otherwise we let people use old bug

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal for backport process and policy

2011-07-25 Thread blind Pete
on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:34 in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.mageia.devel Samuel Verschelde wrote: [snip] > *** Old backports *** > Remove old backports when newer ones are submitted > - otherwise we let people use old bugged or plagged with security issues > packages, when they don't necessar

[Mageia-dev] Proposal for backport process and policy

2011-07-25 Thread Samuel Verschelde
I have finally taken the time to re-read all the backports discussion and tried to summarize it. However, as there were various positions expressed during the discussion and I didn't want to repeat them all (just read the discussion for that), I chose to build a coherent proposal out of this, ta