Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting
On Tue, 15, Feb, 2011 at 08:55:50AM -0800, Steve Langasek spoke thus..
> > [*] It's also a bit of cheating if we allow such updates into stable.
> > Why didn't we add other compression formats and other source formats to
> > dpkg in stable then; we did claim that you need to wait a cycle for them to
> > be used. I don't want that can of worms to be opened.
>
> I see your point. Actually, I was thinking in terms of this being required
> only on the buildds; but anyone upgrading from squeeze .0 to wheezy would
> also be impacted if they tried to use a dpkg and/or apt that didn't
> understand this syntax. We might have no choice but to defer use of :any
> until the wheezy release. :/
Could we choose to document that it can only be used in wheezy (enforced
by dak if necessary) and above and then have the release notes state
that users must upgrade dpkg and apt to the latest point release before
doing the dist-upgrade?
Mark
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