Re: LTS version > stable or wait?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 03:58:11PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 03:28:49PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > On 19/01/2025 11:55, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > libtar     | 1.2.20-8      | oldstable    | source
> > > libtar     | 1.2.20-8      | stable       | source
> > > 
> > > I have two options regarding releasing this for LTS:
> > > 
> > > 1. Have a version LTS > stable until the next point release, or
> > > 2. Prepare the update and release after the point release in March/April
> > > 
> > > 
> > > All CVEs are no-dsa, so no faster update to stable this way.
> > > 
> > > Package dependencies are trivial and the LTS package will work in
> > > stable, the only worry would be that upgrades and new installations
> > > would differ for some time.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Since it's still some time till the next point release I will in this
> > > case proceed despite the version issue, unless someone disagrees.
> > 
> > I think we should avoid version skew. At the very least until a new libtar
> > is in stable-proposed-updates, which is not the case yet.
> > 
> I agree that we should avoid version skew. Go ahead and prepare the
> package for both stable and LTS, and then wait for the LTS upload until
> at least the stable version is accepted in proposed updates.

Thanks, done (#1093625).

> Regards,
> 
> -Roberto

cu
Adrian