Re: Bug#1054657: transition: r-bioc-biocgenerics
Hi Graham,
Am Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 02:57:01PM -0100 schrieb Graham Inggs:
> Hi Andreas
>
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2023 at 04:33, Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> wrote:
> > Can you confirm that packages uploaded to experimental can be moved in
> > one rush from experimental to unstable without extra uploads?
>
> I don't think this has ever been possible. The packages would need to
> be uploaded again to unstable, presumably at the appropriate
> dependency level in the transition.
Sorry, my question was probably confusing. I was not talking about the
new packages. I was talking about the 170 r-bioc-* packages. If I
upload these to experimental, will it be necessary to upload these to
unstable again or can these be moved to unstable in one rush. Also
interesting in this connection: Will the tracker display the levels
of packages uploaded to experimental?
> Seeing these packages would be NEW, even if they were initially
> uploaded directly to unstable, they would likely still require
> source-only uploads for migration anyway.
I'm comfortable with doing source-only uploads of packages that have
passed NEW. I'm not comfortable with uploading 170 packages twice -
once to experimmental and once again to unstable. Given that all
this work has mainly ended up on my shoulders I would prefer to
upload directly to unstable and simply bear with the waiting time
in NEW.
> > Do you
> > have this process in mind after the moreinfo tag is removed?
>
> No, after the NEW packages have cleared NEW and the moreinfo tag is
> removed, we'll consider a slot for the transition.
But you just mentioned the tracker in your previous mail[1].
> We would like to
> avoid stalling the transition with multiple packages going through
> NEW, and putting pressure on FTP Masters by telling them a package is
> needed for a transition is not nice either.
I admit I personally see the bigger drawback on spending my time twice
on 170 packages than waiting for new packages. Please explain (again)
the real drawback of a transition that was delayed due to waiting for
new packages in total by estimated (not verified) by about two weeks.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/r-api-bioc-3.18.html
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