Re: Uploading all of OpenStack Liberty to jessie-backports: need advice
On 11/22/2015 12:12 PM, Micha Lenk wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I am by no means a BPO FTP master, so please do not consider my answer
> authoritative by any means.
>
> This sounds like a huge amount of work, not only on your side but also
> on the side of backports FTP master. So may I ask you to provide more
> information about your motivation for using backports for this plan?
The stable releases are what most users want to use OpenStack. Sid /
Testing is too disruptive for a production environment. The Icehouse
version in Stable is too old, and has lost support from upstream nearly
a year ago.
Also, it's been a long time the DSA want to install OpenStack for DD to
use. The best way is through official stable-backports, as the upstream
puppet-openstack now regained support for Debian recently.
Then, there's also the fact that OpenStack kilo is already in
jessie-backports. I do not wish to provide security support for yet
another release of OpenStack, supporting Icehouse and Liberty is already
enough.
> To me the issue you're trying to tackle here seems to be a bit oversized
> for the scope of Debian Backports. Maybe creating another Debian
> Blend[1] is the better approach to solve your issue?
As much as I understand, this is not what blends are for. And I do want
users to use official Debian repositories, not a derivative.
Note that all other distributions have specific (PPA-like) repository.
Ubuntu has ubuntu-cloud-archive, and CentOS / Red Hat has RDO. If we had
Bikesheds, I would use them instead. Though it's still not the case that
we do have it available.
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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