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I recently requested a new package through Bugzilla and someone has now been kind enough to action my request. In order to test the new package, I had to install Cauldron and I find that the package works perfectly. I'm assuming that the package will now sit in Cauldron until the release of Mageia2 (May 2012?). My question is, is there a way of getting the package backported to Mageia1.

.\\artin

Yes, just add the Keyword "Backport" to the bug in question. This is to let the assigned packager know
that a backport is wanted. Still we need to wait until the necessary infrastructure for the backports has been set up,
you know our sysadmins are only humans, too

OK, I've done that, thanks.

I wasn't aware of that useful feature, thanks for pointing it out.
This now leads to another question:

If I want a package backported that's already in Cauldron, can I just file a bug report and add the "Backport" keyword, even if I'm not actually reporting a bug. A typical example of this is hplip, where the version in Cauldron is newer than the version in "1" and it fixes a problem I'm having.

.\\artin

Well, this is not a good candidate for backports, as it directly affects the printing stack and is rather low-level.
What is the problem that is fixed with hplip-3.11.10 and not in Mageia 1? I could backport that fix only and include
it in the next hplip update for Mageia 1.

See my bug report here: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3382

.\\artin