Re: #Auto-Update: yes|no|minorversion for d/control?

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

Hello,

On 17.06.19 14:12, Andrius Merkys wrote:
> On 2019-06-10 17:31, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> The current situation is that I'm doing lots of updates
>> semi-automatically using routine-update[1].  For me this is a good
>> compromise between spending not too much time for an upgrade (which for
>> instance can be done while sitting in some meeting that might not need
>> my full attention) and full automatisation which is probably hard to
>> approach.  For me it is questionable whether the time that needs to be
>> spent into **real** automatisation can be brought back by this
>> automatisation.
> I will give routine-update a look. My main concern in this thread was
> exactly the full automation, but I have no problems with semi-automatic
> methods.

I had my first go at it and liked it.

My immediate thought is that we should really avoid having patches only
for Debian. Instead, these should go to upstream. This helps the
semi-automated process so much.

Best,

Steffen