Re: Bug#863890: postrm fails on jessie to stretch upgrade
On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 07:27:10PM +0200, Andreas Hoenen wrote:
> Changing this in stretch dblatex is easy (with a new version 0.3.9-3),
> but I'm not sure how a corresponding change in jessie dblatex (with a
> new version 0.3.5-3) would reach the jessie installations out there: is
> there any mechanism that upgrades jessie installations to the most
> recent jessie packages first before upgrading to stretch in a second
> step?
There's no mechanism for forcing upgrades through a middle version, no.
You can write something in the release notes asking to upgrade certain
packages before others, though.
> Or is it something that the users are told in the release notes?
> The only requirement I'm able to find there is upgrading to the latest
> stable point release [1]. Are there plans for a final jessie point
> release?
You'd have to ask the release managers for this.
> Another question: after releasing new dblatex jessie version 0.3.5-3, I
> need to incorporate the new jessie changelog entry into the changelog of
> the new dblatex stretch version 0.3.9-3, don't I? Although this will
> add to the differences between 0.3.9-2 and 0.3.9-3, which the release
> managers request to keep as minimal as possible.
No, you don't need to do this. Packages can diverge, and the BTS understands
it.
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