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

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 10/11/2010 10:56 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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.
>

proposed-updates is just for package updates which can't go through
testing.

In our case it was bad luck that the freeze and the 6.1 upload happened
at almost the same time. I'm really sure that 6.1 will be rock solid
before the Wheezy freeze :-).

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

Yes.

Regards
         Racke

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