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Re: Coordinated tzdata uploads between wheezy + jessie?



* Adam D. Barratt [Thu Apr 13, 2017 at 12:03:26PM +0100]:
> On 2017-04-13 11:03, Michael Prokop wrote:
> >* Emilio Pozuelo Monfort [Thu Apr 13, 2017 at 11:48:56AM +0200]:
> >>On 13/04/17 11:43, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

> >>> Publishing things via -updates is not zero-effort so is not necessarily done
> >>> for every update.

> >>Completely understandable.

> >ACK, and thanks for mentioning that, Adam. Just to clarify:
> >Publishing things via *-updates is a manual task, which explains
> >the different times in this situation until it's "fixed"?
> >And this process won't change in the foreseeable future and people
> >affected by this should take different actions to avoid running into
> >this?

> The process is unlikely to change, no. Even in the best case, the
> packages need to be uploaded and accepted into proposed-updates (the
> accept being a manual action), then copied over to -updates (again
> being a manual action, involving an ssh trigger to ftp-master) and an
> announcement mail written and sent / approved to coincide with the
> dinstall (well, mirror push) in which users will start to see the
> package.

I see, thanks for clarifying that, very appreciated.

> The timing of the announcement sometimes adds to the delay in getting
> the packages released. Changes to -updates require a dinstall /
> mirror update to be visible to users, and experience with point
> releases suggests that some users will get confused / concerned if
> updates appear without an announcement; similarly, we don't want to
> send the announcement out too soon and have users not be able to find
> the update.

Right.

> >PS: jessie-updates still has tzdata 2017a-0+deb8u1, is 2017b-0+deb8u1
> >now going in only with the upcoming point release on 6th of May or
> >is there any chance to have this fixed via -updates sooner (if so
> >let me know whom I own a drink then. :))?

> See my follow-up to Emilio's mail. It'll hopefully be sorted in the
> next few days.

Thanks!

regards,
-mika-

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