On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 05:21:34PM -0500, Robert Middleton wrote: > The last time we talked about this Tobias Frost said that the > soft-freeze for Debian is the 12th of January[1], so after that point > an updated library wouldn't make it into Debian. I would like to get > this version into Debian if possible(as that is the distribution I > use), but that depends on Tobias' availability.
To have a chance to make that happen, I've started the transistion workflow [1]. TBH, due to the soft freeze is in less than two weeks, changes are high that we won't make it, but at least I want to have tried it. The first step is "Upload your new version to experimental (and have it clear NEW)", which is what I've just have done: I've uploaded a snapshot (commit cbd23ff1) to debian experimental. This needs now to be approved by the (Debian) ftp masters, which is (usually) for such a change quick, but if they aren't or not happy for any reason, this can spoil the game. [2] Only after that, I can ask for a transition slot from the release team. If they are not happy with a transition that late (IOW that short before the freeze), well that will be something I have to accept and that will mean 1.0.0 not in bookworm. In parallel I'll see if the reverse dependencies are still building with the new version, as for any breakage I will need to have patches available… So, let's see how it works out. [1] if you want to know the details: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions [2] It needs to go through NEW due to the binary package rename, due to the SONAME bump. -- tobi
