DELAYED upload?
something i wanted to ask for a long time:
is it possible to upload backports to a DELAYED queue?
this is obviously motivated by simplifying my workflow:
when upstream creates a new release, i spend some time importing the new
sources, do any packaging fixes and then upload to unstable.
if everything goes fine, the package will automatically land in testing
after 3 (or 5) days.
every now and again, i check if something went wrong (e.g. a package
failed to migrate).
if i have backports involved, things are a bit different: if i want my
backports to stay up-to-date, i now have to monitor the migration from
unstable to testing, and - if everything worked well - invest new time
into building and uploading the package (to backports).
i do not like this workflow, as it involves needless context switches.
while i'm preparing the upload to "unstable", my mind is focused on the
package. preparing/building/uploading to "backports" is just a tiny
additional step - while focused.
but having to do this work a week later is a completely different thing.
now, i'm not questioning the golden rule of backports ("only versions of
packages found in testing are allowed in backports").
i'm only seeking a way to keep my workload managable.
so i guess if it was possible to upload to backports to a DELAYED queue,
i could do the upload to backports immediately after my upload to unstable.
picking a proper DELAY would make my package appear in the upload queue
*after* the corresponding version has entered testing - hopefully
generating no extra work for our ftpmasters.
is this a reasonable tought?
gfmds
IOhannes
PS: I might just try, but then I currently don't have a package which I
need to upload to backports, and I might have forgotten this question
the next time i do.
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