Re: Proposal for backports handling during the upcoming freeze
Hi Alex,
2014-08-31 16:53 GMT+02:00 Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org>:
> Hi folks,
>
> after some discussions during the debconf and on IRC I want to publish the
> following proposal about our backports handling during the upcoming freeze
> (Remember, remember! The fifth of November).
>
> What is the problem:
>
> After the freeze, testing migration is disabled, so no new packages/versions
> usually enter testing (except for approved bugfixes). Additionally it is
> recommended - if you upload a new version that is not intended for jessie -
> to use experimental instead of unstable as target for your upload. This has
> the consequence that backports will also freeze. Depending on how long the
> freeze takes, this is very annoying for several people.
>
> Therefore I propose the following handling during the freeze:
>
> 1) We open wheezy-backports-sloppy with the freeze
> 2) we will allow packages from unstable and experimental that into
> wheezy-backports-sloppy after a 10 day period.
>
> Some people also asked for opening jessie-backports too, I am a little bit
> unsure about this case. I don't want to end up with packages in
> jessie-backports that will never be in jessie+1. So maybe we could say
> that we open jessie-backports for packages from unstable/experimental that
> are definitly planned for jessie+1. What do you guys think?
With package autoremoval from testing we have a very low number of
bugs in testing and this makes me think that the freeze period will be
very short. I suggest not making changes to backports rules right when
the freeze happens, but after two or four weeks.
The rationale behind that is that backports is most probably used by
less and less people with the freeze approaching and passing and those
who still prefer backports would prefer stability to less tested
updates, I think.
Important changes could be accepted to backports if the proper upgrade
to next stable is ensured anyway.
Cheers,
Balint
PS: Sarge's freeze took only 34 days and we are in a good position to
beat it. Let's make this happen! :-)
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