Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads)
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 04:35:58PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> > > Testing libc6 backward compatibility is not the purpose of
> > > stable/unstable uploads. That is something that needs to be tested
> >
> > But it is a side effect for packages depending on libc6.
>
> And side affects are often bad, as they have unforseen problems.
Are you saying that packages compiled against old libc6-dev packages are
not guarranteed to work with a new libc6? Well, better tell that to all
the application vendors out there.
> against stable. Yes bug reports can do this. However, when you upload a
> package built against stable, the buildd's use unstable, so now you have
> feature skew across architectures. That is a bad thing.
Here's the crux of your current problem. The buildd is broken. In your
original message, you actually said that the buildd should build on stable
for such uploads, which would be the correct thing.
> Also, we want our latest features to be tested. Compiling against stable
> does not do this, so we have less testing on the things that matter for
> the next release.
Disallowing "stable unstable" uploads has a very small effect on this.
> > In any case, I don't see why we should be discussing what technical merits
> > there are in these uploads, but what technical merits exist in disallowing
> > them as I haven't seen any of those which are valid either.
>
> I've already covered those, but you have blown them all off. I don't see
That's exactly my feeling as well, except the other way around.
> how you can argue against them. Those problems exist for a majority of
> the uploads that would be done for stable/unstable. Just because the
> problems don't affect a few possibilities, does not give merit to
> allowing such things, it just means they don't have problems. Nothing
> good comes from doing a stable/unstable upload.
The problem is that the bad things which come from it are not due to the
fact that they are "stable unstable" uploads.
--
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ )
Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
Reply to: