[Pkg-sympa-devel] Let's stay with 6.0 for Squeesh (6.1 is unstable)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:02:21AM +0200, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
>On 10/10/2010 04:06 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I just realized that the 6.1 branch is unstable upstream, so probably 
>>not something we want to maintain a beta release of for several years 
>>in Debian stable.
>>
>>Luckily the packaging currently in testing is 6.0 - I suggest we keep 
>>it at that.
>>
>>More detailed, I suggest we...
>>
>>a) Release my almost ready updated 6.1b.7 packaging for experimental
>>b) Request ftpmasters to drop current 6.1b.4 packaging from unstable
>>c) Release newest stable 6.0 release for unstable
>>d) Request unblocking of that 6.0 packaging
>>
>>
>>Any objections to this?
>>
>>Alternatively we can continue 6.1 in unstable, but then we lack a 
>>staging area for newer 6.0 packaging, which I am sure the release team 
>>won't like (and I don't like it myself!).
>>
>
>We don't need to drop 6.1 from unstable. The RC bug in Squeeze Sympa 
>can be fixed via an upload to proposed-updates.

True, but then we lack a staging area for newer 6.0 packaging, which I 
am sure the release team won't like (and I don't like it myself!).

...as I wrote right above :-P

What I mean by "staging area" is a repository where our packaging is 
exposed to others that might spot flaws in our packaging.  Unstable acts 
as a 10-day staging area for testing, with a lot of Debian developers as 
users. proposed-updates is less of a staging area in the regards of 
spotting errors, as it has much fewer users - relying mostly on the 
release team to (double-)check for flaws.

But sure - we can try leave it as-is first. Will you get in touch with 
the release team about using proposed-updates?


  - Jonas

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