Handling GNOME uploads during Hard Freeze
I think we need to set guidelines for how we want to handle Debian
GNOME uploads now that we entered Hard Freeze.
Sometimes it is useful to upload packages to experimental that are
intended for upload to unstable soon. For instance: gtk4. By uploading
to experimental first, we can verify that the package builds on all
release architectures and that triggered autopkgtests are passing on
amd64 & arm64.
Most of our packages are either key packages or do not have
non-trivial autopkgtest so they would need someone to file an unblock
request and the Release Team approve it in order for any uploads from
now on to be eligible for migration to Testing.
I suggest that we don't do any uploads for the GNOME team packages to
Unstable **or** Experimental unless we intend to file an unblock
request for them. Ubuntu uploads can be made directly to an
ubuntu/questing branch (this is my suggestion for packages that are
already in sync since Trixie should be released before the Ubuntu
26.04 development cycle gets very far) or an ubuntu/latest branch and
then we can easily upload to Debian directly once Trixie is released.
What do the rest of you think? Is it too conservative to avoid
experimental for all packages? Or is it nicer to have a simpler
guideline?
References
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- https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html#hard
- https://release.debian.org/britney/pseudo-excuses-experimental.html
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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