On 1 June 2013 16:18, Steve M. Robbins <st...@sumost.ca> wrote: > Hi, > > On May 30, 2013 10:46:58 AM Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > >> If this patch is uploaded into experimental, I can look into >> rebuilding all reverse dependencies with it. > > I'm curious about your rebuild mechanism. > Could you apply the patch locally and use it for the builds? > Or do you need an actual upload to run the builds? > > I'm a little afraid that after uploading, say -6 to experimental, > we might find the need to upload to unstable to fix something for the > transition > and then what? Upload a different -6 to unstable? Upload -7 that removes > the multi-arch patch? >
When I maintain experimental + unstable in parallel, I typically use: -5 in unstable. -5+exp1 in experimental. And then for example one has freedom to increment either revisions as need be (and when unstable is incremented, experimental re-upload is needed....) Running sbuild against experimental is easier than including local packages, but that's not the reason to request experimental here. When packages fail & bugs/patches are filed, the maintainers of those packages may want to test/build/run multiarch boost themself and pointing those people to experimental is easier than asking each and every person rebuild their own boost. If you wish, I can take care of maintaining experimental branch until it's merged into unstable (whenever that will happen). Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
