Re: [RFC, LONG] Proposal: DAK - automated migration of udebs
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:53:50PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> [I am not subscribed to debian-release, only to debian-boot.]
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:32:47PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > An initial idea was to allow udebs to be out-of-sync with the source in
> > testing (i.e. allow source and debs to migrate earlier than the udebs).
> > This idea was vetoed by Steve Langasek for release management reasons and
> > general quality considerations.
> Another option would be to make two testing distributions with
> independent migration of the packages -- one for d-i and another for
> the rest of Debian. This way we have the benefits of the undisturbed
> migration of the debs to testing while in the same time all packages
> have sources.
Source packages need to be in sync for debs vs. udebs at the time of
release, and split migration doesn't ensure that this is possible.
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