Pierre-Elliott Bécue <p...@debian.org> wrote on 09/01/2022 at 13:11:41+0100:
> [[PGP Signed Part:Good signature from 29BFA0D079290ACA Pierre-Elliott Bécue > <be...@crans.org> (trust ultimate) created at 2022-01-09T13:14:08+0100 using > RSA]] > > Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> wrote on 09/01/2022 at 03:38:18+0100: > >>> I am eager to revert mistune (and therefore django-hyperkitty) back to >>> previous versions, and to open bugs against reverse deps, with new >>> uploads in experimental for both mistune and django-hyperkitty. >> >> this would be great indeed, thanks! >> >>> I consider a delay between bug opening and making them RC on the >>> reverse-deps of a month, which, added to the removal delay, means around >>> mid-march I'll probably reupload mistune 2.0.0 and django-hyperkitty in >>> unstable. >> >> from what i have seen, many of the downstream projects developers were >> rather surprised by the sudden release of a mistune 2.0 version, and >> they were uncertain how to move forward in a proper way, given the >> vast number of differences and incompatible changes. > > Well, having participated to writing some documentation, I am not sure > that this number of differences is that vast. Mistune, on itself, was > not that big a project in terms of features, and getting a grip on the > new version should not take that much time. > >> There also seems to be a complete lack of guidance from mistune >> upstream on how to port projects from 0.8.x to 2.x: do you think any >> effort will be spent by mistune upstream to provide any such >> documentation? without it, i'm afraid 1 month is not enough >> (anecdotally, the 2.x upload in unstable was a little more than a >> month ago, and i dont think any upstream project mas ported to it, so >> that should provide some guidance on how long to wait to make it RC) > > Okay, lets go with 3 months from Jan the 15th so April the 15th. If > things seem to go faster than expected I will maybe contract that > schedule. (let's say if two thirds of the deps are up-to-date upstream > on March the 1st I'll come back to the initial schedule) > > Would that make sense for you? > >>> Last but not least, do you have appropriate tooling to file bugs against >>> mistune reverse deps a bit more efficiently than "mail by mail"? >> >> `mass-bug` from devscripts > > Ah right, I never used it, it's about time. :) > > Thanks! Done, I'll mass-bug this evening. I plan to reupload immediately 2.0.0 in experimental. This means no further upload of mistune 0.8.4 are possible in unstable. Is this okay with both of you? Cheers! -- PEB
