Hi On 03-08-2024 11:58, Luca Boccassi wrote:
On the use of tpu: Personally, until now I fail to see enough value of being able to distinguish unstable and testing to give the package carrying /etc/os-release a permanent exception via tpu.Thanks for chiming in - assuming for a moment that it is decided that the change will be implemented, do you see any technical obstacles in using t-p-u as proposed?
The biggest reason I know against using tpu is that it currently isn't receiving the same amount of testing (be it automatic (autopkgtest, piuparts, in the future reproducibility) or human) as unstable-to-testing migrations receive. For the automatic part, that's obviously a solvable problem (and already on my todo list for YEARS), but currently not the case. It also *always* requires human intervention by the Release Team. Another issue issue with tpu is that binNMU'ing is more difficult (I assume that's probably not very often relevant in the current case). I recall there are more issues with tpu, but I have forgotten them. When I find them, I'll add them.
Paul
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