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Re: Buster to be released with singularity-container?



Afif / HPC Team:

 

I’ve been following this thread, but only just joined the list. This seems like a reasonable decision -- the freeze policy doesn’t work for all development patterns -- but I’d like to better understand the impact.

 

It seems to me that this will (1) block all new uploads of singularity-container to testing and (2) block the specific version presently in testing from buster’s migration to stable.

 

Q0: is this correct / am I missing other impacts?

Q1: will the current version (2.6.1-1) eventually disappear from testing?

Q2: Could one develop and maintain a 3.x/Golang package in unstable and bypass testing directly to buster-backports and stretch-backports-sloppy?

 

Q2 seems like a reasonable approach as (a) the backports page specifically identifies security updates as a reason for skipping testing in the backport workflow and (b) the singularity-container package has been good about releasing the 2.x series stretch-backports and jessie-backports-sloppy (prior to jessie entering LTS).

 

I appreciate the effort and dedication to packaging standards even as Golang/agile development makes it hard.

 

> Done [1]. I hesitated because I was thinking about whether to also request removal from backports.

> 

> regards

> Afif

 

Yours,

 

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Tom Downes
Senior Scientist

Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics
414.229.2678

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