Hello Daniel and BIRD fans o/ On 25-04-03 11:04, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> Hi Jakub, > Hi d-release, > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 01:10:47PM +0100, Jakub Ružička wrote: > > and uploaded bird3_3.0.0-1 to Debian experimental, > > it's now waiting in NEW queue: > > > > https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/bird3_3.0.0-1.html > > bird3 has passed NEW and is now in experimental. Yay \o/ > > The preliminary plan is to test (in experimental) until BIRD 3.1.0 > > release sometimes in January 2025 and if things are looking good, > > include that for Debian 13 Trixie (and hopefully Ubuntu 25.04). > > Jan has passed, do you still intend to have bird3 in trixie? I'd like to > have it :-). Yes! In fact, BIRD team was hard at work to release improved 3.1.0 which I plan to upload to unstable soon after 2.17 - I hope both make it to trixie. > Keep the freeze policy in mind. My understanding is that starting > 2025-04-15 (Soft freeze) no new source packages will be allowed to migrate > to testing: Yeah, assuming all goes well, I'll upload tomorrow (04-04) and bird3 has autopkgtests so it has decent chance of passing to testing before the Soft Freeze. > > https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html#transition > > > No new packages and no re-entry to testing > > > > Packages that are not in testing will not be allowed to migrate to > > testing. This applies to new packages as well as to packages that were > > removed from testing (either manually or by auto-removals). Packages that > > are not in trixie at the start of the soft freeze will not be in the > > release. > > d-release: It's not clear to me if we can get an exception for bird3 here? Exception shouldn't be needed if there are no unexpected issues. Fingers crossed for bird3_3.1.0-1 :) Cheers, Jakub
