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Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes




Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Am Freitag, den 10.05.2013, 16:05 -0400 schrieb Barry Warsaw:
>> For the 13.04 release, Ubuntu made a change to its procedure whereby
>> source-only uploads to the development release (e.g. raring) actually
>go to
>> e.g. raring-proposed first.  The builds are attempted and only if
>they
>> succeed, pass their autopkgtests, *and* don't make the archive less
>> installable than before the new upload, are the packages copied over
>to the
>> release, e.g. raring.
>
>that sounds like very good QA.
>
>What if I upload two (or 200) packages that need to be copied to the
>target suite together, as each package individually will decrease
>installation count. Will that require manual intervention or does the
>infrastructure detect hat automatically? Are you using britney for
>that,
>or a custom tool?

It's britney with no aging requirement.  Sometimes you have to force a group of packages together. It's rare, but it does happen. 

Scott K


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