Hello Simon, On Tue 05 Oct 2021 at 07:48PM +01, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 03 Oct 2021 at 16:52:15 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> On Mon 27 Sep 2021 at 10:59AM +01, Simon McVittie wrote: >> > On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 at 15:35:11 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> >> (1) The reason for this, to put it a bit simplistically, is that we >> >> don't require apt to perform the upgrade between stable releases in any >> >> particular order, right? Or are there other reasons distinct from this >> >> one that I'm missing? I think it would be good to state the thing about >> >> apt (in better language than mine) in the text. >> > >> > I think that's the main reason. We have not traditionally mandated >> > the use of a special upgrade tool like Ubuntu's do-release-upgrade(8), >> > so the upgrade happens in whatever order apt chooses, which can vary >> > between machines. >> > >> > Another reason why I think we want Debian 12 packages to be installable >> > onto non-merged-/usr systems is that to be able to do our development work, >> > they need to be installable onto testing/unstable systems, which (again) >> > means that the upgrade order is undefined. >> >> Right, we're on the same page then, but would you agree with me that the >> resolution should state this justification explicitly? > > I hope that > <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/tech-ctte/-/merge_requests/4> > implements this to your satisfaction. If not, suggestions for better > wording welcome - I would prefer not to be the only one writing this > document! Thanks, yes, this addresses my feedback. I've pushed some wording tweaks. Hope you don't mind me not filing a MR -- seemed uncontroversial so thought I'd just push. -- Sean Whitton
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