Re: Needing branches for releases ?

[Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org>]

Hi Tom,

there is a lot of useful info in your mail to look into, below I'm just
quickly addressing the question you asked.

On 2025-07-06 17:14, Rix, Tom wrote:
> Some topics for our meet up this week.
> 
> I hope I am wrong, but there don't seem to be any branches so how are
> releases supported ?

Not in the current layout, but that's because it's just the default gbp
layout that we've continued to use because it's easy.

If we switch to DEP-14 layout [1], then you'd have releases at

  debian/bookworm
  debian/trixie
  debian/experimental
  debian/latest         (used to be debian/master)
  ubuntu/puffin
  ...

We could also continue with the current layout and just add

   bookworm
   trixie
   puffin

without the vendor prefix, to the same effect, but I personally find
DEP-14 cleaner. Also, standardization is a plus.

> Without the branches basic maintenance on the releases, like CVE or
bug fixes cannot be done.

Correct.

Best,
Christian

[1]: https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep14/