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List:       suse-linux-uk-schools
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-edu] Update Sugar packages
From:       Xin Wang <dram.wang () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-08-21 8:21:28
Message-ID: CAHjSAjX1FkWW1YB8oT8jeqwsRKoJABx1rKpHGavjdYeWHsDD5A () mail ! gmail ! com
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2012/8/21 Lars Vogdt <lrupp@suse.de>:
> On Di 21 Aug 2012 08:34:16 CEST Xin Wang <dram.wang@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, this was not necessary until now. I'm just aware of a handful
>>> packages
>>> (from > 400) that were reported via Bugzilla and needed a fix for an old
>>> release. Patching them and re-enabling build in the Education project
>>> itself
>>> was much easier than providing a branch of the whole Education project.
>>> Further development was also not affected as those packages were broken
>>> on
>>> younger releases, too.
>>>
>>
>> I see.
>>
>> If I got it right, active development period of Education release
>> begins near new openSUSE release, so there will be little conflict
>> between maintenance time of old one and development time of the new.
>
>
> Yes, right.
>
>
>
>> When a new version is released, old one will be obsoleted soon.
>>
>> is that right?
>
>
> The old packages simply stay in the old repositories (for the old
> distributions) if someone just disables them in the OBS. For the enduser of
> this distribution it simply looks like there are no more package updates.
>
> The old version will just be obsoleted if a) there's a bug report against
> that old package or b) the packager himself decides to release an update for
> the old distribution.
>

OK, I get it.

> With kind regards,
> Lars
>
>
>



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