Re: CMake 4 upload to unstable

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 11:29:08AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 25/09/2025 11:21, Timo Röhling wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > * Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org> [2025-09-25 10:07]:
> > > Yesterday when I read Simon's email I was going to suggest the same.
> > > Raise the severity now, and wait a bit more for packages to be fixed,
> > > as otherwise this may cause issues to ongoing or planned transitions.
> > That sounds like a reasonable approach.
> > 
> > > Maybe we can evaluate it again in one month, and hopefully get it
> > > uploaded to sid soon.
> > I am a bit unhappy about the fuzziness of the "hopefully soon" part, and
> > I would prefer something more concrete that the Release Team is
> > expecting to happen / where the priorities are. For instance, am I
> > correct to infer from Paul's mail that dealing with key packages is more
> > important than merely reducing the overall number of open bugs fast?
> 
> Yes, key packages are more important in general, as it's harder to get rid
> of those in testing if there's a need to unblock a transition.
> 
> I think we can do it in one month if things look reasonably well, otherwise
> in two months as a hard deadline to not delay this indefinitely. Does that
> sound reasonable?

This was over 2 months ago, and the number of key packages that FTBFS 
with CMake 4 is now lower than the number that do still FTBFS with GCC 15.

> Cheers,
> Emilio

cu
Adrian