On 14.07.21 13:47, Michael Biebl wrote:
Am 14.07.21 um 12:59 schrieb Simon McVittie:Would it be feasible for dak to have a list of binary package nameregexes mapped to a source package and a section/priority, and auto-acceptpackages from the given source package that match the regex, assigning the given section/priority, without manual action? That would let the ftp team pre-approve src:systemd to ship /^libsystemd-shared-[0-9]+$/ in libs/optional, for example. It seems like this would also be good for src:linux, where ABI breaks are often tied to security fixes that should enter the archive ASAP.If something fully automated like this would be implemented, I would have much less concerns with this option.As it stands today, NEW processing is simply to unpredictable. It can range from taking a a few hours/days to several months.
And yet it should not dictate technical solutions. We basically see the same thing with nvidia-graphics-drivers that break your running applications when the libraries are upgraded and you don't reboot. Arguably the proper solution is to version them with the full major/minor version. But I can see how that's a total hassle with NEW processing for both for the maintainer and to the FTP team.
I do recall that the FTP masters would've been generally open to have such an auto-approver (but maybe I'm wrong), but that no-one stepped up yet to code it up?
Kind regards Philipp Kern