On May 26, 2024 5:35:27 PM UTC, Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> wrote:
>Greetings.
>
>After we make a stable release, there is usually a constant flow
>of packages which start to FTBFS due to "time bombs", i.e. expired
>SSL certificates used in tests and other similar reasons.
>
>This is not fun for anybody trying to keep stable free of FTBFS bugs,
>but fortunately we can do better than that.
>
>According to Paul Gevers, who allowed me to quote him on this, if we
>know for sure that a package will FTBFS during the support time of
>the release, then it's RC.
>
>So, if we aim at releasing stable every two years, and we released bookworm
>at 2023-06-10, then the estimated support timeframe for trixie will be
>approximately from 2025-06-10 to 2028-06-10 (two years as stable plus one
>year as oldstable).
>
>Therefore, I set my clock at 2028-06-10 and built trixie/sid on such date,
>and found around 50 packages with time bomb issues of all kinds. A preliminary
>list of build logs is available here:
>
>https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/trixie-time-bomb/
The clamav issue looks like a false positive. The distro-info data will get
updated between now and then.
Scott K
