Re: Uploading all of OpenStack Liberty to jessie-backports: need advice
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:36:27PM +0100, Micha Lenk wrote:
> Am 18.11.2015 um 00:58 schrieb Thomas Goirand:
> >My current plans:
> >=================
> >
> >If everything goes as planned (if python-repoze.what gets removed from
> >Sid & Testing as per #805407, python-repoze.who, python-pysaml2 and
> >finally Keystone (in this order of dependency) will all migrate to Stretch.
> >
> >Then I'll be able to upload all of OpenStack Liberty within the
> >following days to jessie-backports. This is a lot of upload: maybe about
> >150 packages (I didn't look enough in the details to know the exact
> >figures, but when Liberty was released, I had 102 packages to upload to
> >move from Experimental to Sid, which I have done in 3 days).
>
> 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?
To provde Debian stable users with the latest Open Stack, I assume.
> 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?
>
> What does the official Debian Backports archive solve better than a
> Debian Blend would solve?
A Debian Blend consists by definition of packages *inside* Debian, so I
don't see how an additional Blend could possibly provide jessie users
with OpenStack Liberty, unless I am missing something?
Michael
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