Bug#1090749: Bug#1090749: ITP: bird3 -- Internet Routing Daemon (version 3.x)
Hello Daniel and BIRD fans o/
On 25-04-03 11:04, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> Hi Jakub,
> Hi d-release,
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 01:10:47PM +0100, Jakub Ružička wrote:
> > and uploaded bird3_3.0.0-1 to Debian experimental,
> > it's now waiting in NEW queue:
> >
> > https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/bird3_3.0.0-1.html
>
> bird3 has passed NEW and is now in experimental.
Yay \o/
> > The preliminary plan is to test (in experimental) until BIRD 3.1.0
> > release sometimes in January 2025 and if things are looking good,
> > include that for Debian 13 Trixie (and hopefully Ubuntu 25.04).
>
> Jan has passed, do you still intend to have bird3 in trixie? I'd like to
> have it :-).
Yes! In fact, BIRD team was hard at work to release improved 3.1.0 which
I plan to upload to unstable soon after 2.17 - I hope both make it to
trixie.
> Keep the freeze policy in mind. My understanding is that starting
> 2025-04-15 (Soft freeze) no new source packages will be allowed to migrate
> to testing:
Yeah, assuming all goes well, I'll upload tomorrow (04-04) and bird3 has
autopkgtests so it has decent chance of passing to testing before the
Soft Freeze.
>
> https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html#transition
>
> > No new packages and no re-entry to testing
> >
> > Packages that are not in testing will not be allowed to migrate to
> > testing. This applies to new packages as well as to packages that were
> > removed from testing (either manually or by auto-removals). Packages that
> > are not in trixie at the start of the soft freeze will not be in the
> > release.
>
> d-release: It's not clear to me if we can get an exception for bird3 here?
Exception shouldn't be needed if there are no unexpected issues. Fingers
crossed for bird3_3.1.0-1 :)
Cheers,
Jakub
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