Kim B. Heino:
Hi Niels,
1) I have granted you commit access (developer) to
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/foomuuri in case you want to move
the packaging there.
Thank you. I pushed the commits there and I'll remove my personal copy
later.
You are welcome.
2) I am ok with sponsoring your package in its current form, though
I would like to confirm with you that you are okay targeting unstable.
Yes, unstable should be fine.
Foomuuri has very few dependencies and there are no packages that
depends on Foomuuri. There are no large/disruptive changes.
New upstream release 0.28 has been very stable in Fedora/EPEL. It
includes very user-friendly change by merging two config sections (old
configs will work as is) and that's the main reason why I would like it
to get to Debian.
Between my last email and now, the release team announced that the Full
Freeze will start in 7 days. This means an upload today (or even last
week) will require an explicit unblock from the release team - even for
non-key packages with autopkgtests. Uploads have 20 days delay these
days, so the new freeze policy would be in force before the migration
can occur. The release team is explicit about this interaction of the
delay and which policy that applies in their announcement.
When I answered earlier today, as far as I knew the upload could have
migrated without an unblock and with the release team announcement that
understanding unfortunately turned out to not hold at all.
Therefore, for the upload to make it to Trixie, it would take an
approved unblock bug - that is, release team approval. Apologies if it
feels like the goal post moved, and to be fair, it kind of has.
For more details on the timeline/announcement, please see:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/07/msg00003.html
As for an unblock bug, it is a matter of filing a bug against
release.debian.org (reportbug release.debian.org) and choose the unblock
template. In the subject, add " (pre-approval)" in the end and CC me on
it. If the RT approves, I will do the upload. After that, it is filling
out the template, which is about assessing the risk, how the changes
have been tested, and consequences of keeping the current version.
Sorry, if that was not the news you wanted to hear, but it is
unfortunately the new state of things. If the unblock request is
declined, ping me a few days after the freeze and I will upload
foomuuri/0.28-1 there.
[...]
You mention a backport upload as well. The one I can find is
https://salsa.debian.org/kimheino/foomuuri/-/commits/bookworm-backports?ref_type=heads.
If so, then that is currently not actionable as the version being
uploaded to backports must be in testing already and 0.28 is not. If
you are still aiming for this, then foomuuri must be uploaded to
unstable and migrate before I can help there.
Ok, understood. I'm still new to Debian maintaining... Let's get back
to this when it's migrated.
Ok. Lets see where we land on the upload.
Best regards,
Niels
