On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 07:12:32PM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >... > Being more liberal in pulling dependencies from unstable in newer version are > available could be a solution too, I have a script [0] that get a lists of > dependencies that have newer versions in unstable. >...
Should Debian continue to support working upgrades, or should software only work within its suite? "Being more liberal in pulling dependencies from unstable" sounds like doing "just take the autopkgtest inside unstable for testing migration" in a far more complicated way. The fundamental question is really whether the runtime dependencies of packages should ensure a functional setup. An example: Due to #1122038 packages built in unstable had runtime dependencies that were fulfilled by libc6/testing despite actually requiring libc6/unstable for running. Among the affected packages was src:python3.13, when you are "more liberal in pulling dependencies from unstable" in such a case you get green autopkgtests that migrate a Python interpreter that is non-working in testing. > Kind Regards, > > Bas cu Adrian
