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Re: svn layout confusion



On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:06:45AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 15:20 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:51:06AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > Ok, so now that we have dists/sid and dists/trunk (which is for development
> > > and experimental stuff); how is this actually supposed to work?  I understand
> > > the scenario when we have 2.6.12 in sid and 2.6.13rc in trunk; stick
> > > any new development stuff in trunk, backport to sid if desired, do sid
> > > releases from dists/sid, and experimental releases from dists/trunk.  What
> > 
> > Indeed.
> > 
> > > about the case where we have 2.6.13 in both?  Are we supposed to do all
> > > releases from trunk, and branch/cp to sid?  Are we supposed to do releases
> > > from sid, and keep trunk ready for 2.6.14 development; regularly
> > > forward-porting changelogs and stuff?
> > 
> > The plan, as i see it, is that as soon as 2.6.12 is in etch, we are going to
> > upload 2.6.13 kernels anyway to sid, and continue to make 2.6.12 bug-fix
> > uploads to etch by t-p-u (if this is not still broken).
> > 
> 
> I wouldn't really consider 2.6.12 to be etch release-material until the
> packaging changes settle down; more of something for d-i and etch users
> to use while we finalize the packaging.  I wouldn't want to see etch
> actually release w/ -6.

Agreed, though currently Etch is testing, and the likelyhood that Etch
is magically released as stable before we have a chance to make another
release, and indeed settle down the packaging, seems remote.

-- 
Horms



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