On Sat, December 19, 2015 15:08, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> I would like to propose two changes for the security archive:
>
> * Rename */updates to *-security, starting with the next stable release.
> This gets rid of the confusion of */updates vs. *-updates.
>
> * Rename the components updates/{main,contrib,non-free} to just
> {main,contrib,non-free}. This is both confusing and not well
> supported in dak: as its only used on the security archive, it gets
> even less testing than the rest of the code and breaks if anything
> relevant changed. Having the same names allows to eventually remove
> the code for this.
>
> Both changes would not affect the current stable release, but people
> would have to change their sources.list on upgrade. As it is
> recommended to use codenames in sources.list, an upgrade already means
> editing sources.list; the changes just imply a slightly different change.
>
> The changes to the subdirectories below pool/ might also affect people
> maintaining (partial) private mirrors of the security archive. They
> would need to update what they mirror for the next release.
Seems like a good plan. I'm assuming that people using the old style
configuration on the new release would get an error message (and not a
silent lack of updates); or even better: that they are automatically
redirected to the new locations.
Cheers,
Thijs
