Re: Uploading all of OpenStack to backports
On 6 March 2014 11:24, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
> On 03/06/2014 06:08 PM, kwadronaut wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Great to hear about your commitment!
>>
>> On 05/03/14 16:43, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>>> Currently, I maintain OpenStack in Sid, and maintain a private
>>> repository for the Wheezy backports. Though I don't like doing this, I
>>> think OpenStack should be in official Debian repositories only. And
>>> mostly, everyone uses Wheezy for deployments...
>>
>> I agree, I would appreciate it if it was in backports.
>
> Thanks for your answer, though this message was more addressed to the
> FTP masters, which will approve (or not) my uploads.
>
>>> Therefore, I'm considering uploading all of OpenStack and all of the
>>> needed python dependencies directly within Debian official backports.
>>> Though the list of package is quite huge. I'm talking here about nearly
>>> 180 packages. Most of them are in Python.
>>
>> That is quite a lot indeed. Would it make sense to do this bit by bit
>> and, for example, start with python-*client packages and their
>> dependencies? Although I doubt that makes a big difference with only
>> slightly over a dozen client-packages.
>
> That's a good idea indeed. I will start by the clients, yes.
>
The most common problem with uploads to backports seems to be not
passing correct -v option to generate changes file with all changes
since stable.
Thus it's best to start small with a couple of packages and get them
accepted, before doing mass dput =)
--
Regards,
Dimitri.
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