Re: Release file changes
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Joey Hess wrote:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> writes:
> > > Right. For now I undo this (with next dinstall run), until either one of
> > > the following happens:
> >
> > > - lenny is gone and the tools are fixed in squeeze with a point
> > > update (provided the SRMs approve such updates, but I *hope* so).
> > > Until today we discovered:
> > > * debootstrap (has a patch IIRC)
> > > * cdebootstrap
> > > * debmirror (fix uploaded)
> >
> > I can confirm that the unstable debmirror runs great on oldstable and can
> > mirror the new-format repository, although I had to use --diff=none
> > because otherwise a bunch of Packages diff files would fail the SHA-1
> > checksum and block the mirror. (That's not a new problem; I had
> > --pdiff=none previously due to the same problem.)
>
> It does have a minor big with -v on oldstable.
>
> More problimatic is the diff size to use generic checksum types,
> since it entailed many broad changes:
> git diff 2.5..2.6|wc -l
> 565
> This would be difficult to justify for proposed-updates.
If it has been extensively regression-tested, and there are no ABI changes
that could break local scripts, it should still be considered a valid
candidate, IMO.
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