unblock 1020893 by 1021663
thanks
El 18/6/23 a las 1:56, Harshula escribió:
Hi Santiago,
On 18/6/23 03:04, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
One can use the mechanism discussed in section 5.14.3 of the Developer's
Reference [1]:
1) Block the automatic migration via britney/excuses.
2) When a new version is released, dput two different versions: one into
unstable and one into testing-proposed-updates.
To reduce the amount of work needed for each update of `base-files`,
`/etc/os-release` can be moved to package like `debian-version-info`, so the
manual double upload must be done only once per release cycle.
[1]
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#direct-updates-to-testing
What are your thoughts on this proposal?
I see it as an excess of over-engineering for very little gain.
I could agree that it would be "nice in a general sense" for lsb_release to show
"sid" when running sid, but we should never forget that sid is just a staging
area
for testing and sid is not even a "release" in strict sense.
Also, a package in sid which does not propagate to testing is now considered a
RC bug
by Release Managers. Let's not introduce artificial bugs to fix "problems" which
will never happen in a stable release, and, in general, let's not make things
a lot more complex than they really need to be.
I already told Gioele here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1021663#12
that his blocking of any base-files bugs regarding this issue
is not welcome, and I explained why, so I'm undoing the unblock now.
Thanks.
