Re: Updating fis-gtm package to 6.1
Hi Luis,
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:22:01PM -0500, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Dominique Belhachemi <domibel@debian.org>wrote:
>
> > There is no big difference to all the other packages in Debian.
> > Transitions happen all the time.
> >
> > Just let the latest stable release propagate into testing. Luis is setting
> > up the git packaging infrastructure to make a transition from one release
> > to another release as smooth as possible. We can deal with all the other
> > issues when they arise.
>
> As far as I have understood the git packaging infrastructure, it
> seems indeed that we can put the multiple versions of fis-gtm
> in different git branches, and then use the gbp.conf file to capture
> the policy decision (from debian-med) on what specific versions
> to make available as packages.
>
>
> I confess that I'm not very familiar with the Debian policy for porting
> bug fixes from upstream, so I most likely missing important details
> here... (my apologies in advance).
>
> I'm now reading more here:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#bug-handling
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/developer-duties.html#rc-bugs
As far as I have read Dominique's (and more importantly Thorsten's mail
who was perhaps partly wearing his ftpmaster hat, thanks Thorsten - I
was hoping for input like this) the question was rather rhetorically.
The (implied) answer is that there is no really good way to support
different versions from a security point of view.
> In the meantime, here is what I'm doing:
>
>
> 1) Reducing the lintian warnings that Dominique pointed out.
>
> Currently I'm looking at the large number of Lintian warnings
> on the i486 platform. Just spawned a 32bits VM to look at this.
>
>
> 2) Then will be setting the current fis-gtm-6.0-003 in a git branch.
> So, no new content, just the current package in the format that
> will facilitate having multiple versions side by side.
>
>
> 3) Then will look at adding fis-gtm-6.1 in its own branch.
>
>
> Does this sound reasonable ?
This does sound very reasonable and is exactly the way to go to enable
enough flexibility (at least according to my admitedly weak
understanding since I also never dealt with parallel packaging of
different versions).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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