[Pkg-dns-devel] knot-resolver 1.5.3 -- and knot-resolver backporting plans

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

hi all--

Ondřej, it looks to me like you've pushed some work on knot-resolver
1.5.3 to salsa, but haven't tagged or uploaded the package to unstable
yet.

is there a reason for not tagging or uploading?

Also, i note your master-backports branch, which says in it "This is a
branch to base all backports from" (see commit
014377adb8a18ffb2ee126873b9e0d2b440a3ea1).  i've been making
stretch-backports releases from the stretch-backports branch, which has
much less divergence from master.  Furthermore, the master-backports
branch explicitly keeps the stricter build-dep on libknot-dev, which
requires that the kresd backport depends on the knot backport, though
upstream really only needs the version in debian stable.  (we discussed
this point back in December too, and i think the conclusion then was
that the stricter b-d wasn't necessary for stretch-backports).

I'd like to continue making stretch-backports releases that track master
closely where possible while not requiring knot-resolver's backport to
depend on the knot backport until that becomes a strict requirement from
upstream. Is there a reason that we need to base stretch-backports on
the master-backports branch?  I have no objections to a master-backports
branch that targets ancient distros (oldstable, debian and ubuntu LTS)
for those who want to maintain those distros, but i'm concerned that
"base all backports from" means that stretch-backports will diverge more
than necessary from unstable.

                 --dkg

0 dkg at alice:~/src/knot/knot-resolver$ git diff --stat debian/1.5.2-1  salsa/stretch-backports 
 debian/changelog | 8 ++++++++
 debian/control   | 4 ++--
 debian/gbp.conf  | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
0 dkg at alice:~/src/knot/knot-resolver$ git diff --stat salsa/master salsa/master-backports
 debian/compat                     | 2 +-
 debian/control                    | 7 ++++---
 debian/gbp.conf                   | 2 +-
 debian/knot-resolver-doc.doc-base | 4 ++--
 debian/knot-resolver-doc.links    | 4 ++--
 debian/knot-resolver.install      | 1 +
 debian/knot-resolver.manpages     | 1 -
 debian/rules                      | 6 +++---
 8 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
0 dkg at alice:~/src/knot/knot-resolver$ 
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