Re: My Plan For Uploading Modular To Unstable

[David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net>]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 05:53:22PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 11:42:39PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:59:45PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > > 
> > >    So we're finally at the end of a very long line. At the end of this week
> > > I'm going to upload the whole of 7.0 to unstable. I've gotten the green
> > > light from the release team to do this, so I'm just going to go for it and
> > > we'll iron out whatever major bugs are blocking us from actually releasing
> > > this with etch. Here's the plan:
> > > 
> > >  1) Wait for the latest upload of 6.9 to propagate to testing. Since this
> > >     is a high urgency security upload it shouldn't take too long.
> > 
> > AFAICT it won't happen because xorg-x11 FTBFS on mips/mipsel:
> 
> Ugh, thanks for letting me know. Now comes the fun decision: re-upload a
> fixed monolith (probably with the evdev patch just removed for this round)
> and let it propagate or just go straight for modular? I'm honestly leaning
> towards the latter because I sick of delaying it. We need to get these
> packages in so we can squash some important bugs for the etch release.

So thanks to Micah Anderson of the testing security team, we've got a fixed
version of the monolith uploaded straight to unstable. That leaves us three
minor arches only vulnerable in unstable, and I'm willing to live with that
for now. 

I'm going to continue building and uploading the individual pieces to
gluck, and hopefully the xaw8 issues will all be taken care of by then.
I've done QA uploads for 7/21 of the affected packages, and I've gotten
confirmations on three more that they're going to switch back to xaw7 (nas
and tetex below, and drscheme from Ari on irc).

I'm currently also uploading a new version of the xorg source package that
adds a compatibility package for xlibs-static-dev to prevent hassles with
that transition until after etch. These are the last major issues I'm aware
of. If all goes well the transition to 7.0 in unstable will begin later
this week.

 - David Nusinow