Re: dbgsym packages and stretch-as-stable

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Tue, Nov  8, 2016 at 00:18:21 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> "Adam D. Barratt" writes:
> > Apologies if I missed something in earlier discussions, but how are
> > automagic debug packages and uploads to stable expected to interact?
> >
> > Will there need to be stable-new-dbgsym and pu-dbgsym suites, or will
> > the packages sit in stable-new and pu alongside the rest of the binary
> > packages and then move to stable-debug at the point release?
> 
> The current implementation for policy queues has the -dbgsym packages in
> the same policy queue (i.e. stable-new).  Once they are accepted they
> should go to a new proposed-updates-debug suite (in the debian-debug
> archive) and from there into stable-debug (at point release time).
> 
That seems sane, I think.

Thanks,
Julien