Hi, let me comment Am Sonntag, den 05.05.2013, 14:22 +0200 schrieb Joerg Jaspert: > Preparing Transitions: > Some base package(s) should be changed in a maybe incompatible > way. All of its reverse (Build-)Depends will be rebuild, updated, > and fixed in the PPA before they get transferred to unstable. > > [..] > > - a PPAMAIN can have its full package set transferred into its base > suite with one command, provided the base suite is configured to > receive such transfers. (Currently we imagine only unstable will be > configured for it, but other suites might gain this feature > too). Only packages with versions NEWER than those existing in the > base suite will be transferred. All version checks of the base suite > must be fulfilled for the transfer to work. with a big: „Yes, thanks in advance“ from the Haskell team. This will allow us to keep the uninstallable count in unstable very low at all times, even while we rebuild stuff for a new compiler. Feature suggestion: Optionally only allow the package set transferred to unstable if all transferred packages are installable in the final set, or similar checks as applied in the unstable → testing transition. And a question: > - a PPAMAIN must have packages with unique versions which have to be > greater than in the base suite. Package versions are global for the > archive, so the ppaname has to be included in the version uploaded > to the PPA. What if it is decided by the maintainers of a certain package to do the uploads always to a PPA first and from there, via the above command, to unstable. Will it then be ok to use „normal“ version numbers? Greetings and thanks for the happy news, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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