Re: For those who care about their packages in Debian
Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> writes:
> On 25/08/2010 10:02, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Uploading new versions of leaf software isn't *as* big of a disaster,
>> but it does mean that updates to that software that should go into
>> testing can't go through the normal testing process and have to go
>> through testing-proposed-updates, which is way riskier. This isn't
>> good. So for anything that's releasing with squeeze, please upload any
>> subsequent versions *not* aimed at squeeze to experimental instead.
> Hmhm, out of curiosity, why is t-p-u “way riskier”.
Mostly because there isn't any large pool of systems using t-p-u the way
there is for unstable, so the aging process where we get testing in
unstable before migrating the package never happens. This means uploads
to t-p-u could potentially break more conservative testing users, which is
bad, and worse they're essentially going straight into a release
candidate, so depending on timing we could release with bad bugs. It's
always better to get the unstable shakedown where possible.
> Would it be possible (at one point) to “fix” it and stop using unstable
> as t-p-u and experimental as unstable when freeze is in action?
We could try to get lots of people who normally use unstable to instead
test testing plus t-p-u, but I'm not sure they'd be willing to do so. I
for example don't want to switch my unstable systems to testing plus t-p-u
for a variety of reasons.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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