[Piuparts-devel] 0.50/0.51 plans (was: Re: Bug#698526: Sort known issues by reverse dependency count)

[Andreas Beckmann]

[moving to piuparts-devel@]

On 2013-03-02 10:33, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Yet I also can only imagine Dave's frustration trying to get his work in and 
> recognized, so far this hasn''t happen for this feature, and for quite a long 
> time. And I'd like Dave to stay motivated and contributing, and I like the new 
> feature also.

That's right :-)

> So I'm a bit torn, (currently) leaning towards releasing 0.50 soon (now?) and 
> then starting 0.51 with the merge of dave/sort-issues-by-rdep - or do you 
> think thats premature?

For 0.50 I'd like to get two more of my larger branches ready (they
complement each other so it's only one larger feature):
* distros.conf
* dependency_databases

They have been "in production use" for a long time, just need changelog
polishing.

This would allow other piuparts users to actually do more complictaed
things like lenny->squeeze->wheezy.

What would be the best package to ship distros.conf?
This is a conffile and will be used by master, slave, report and
piuparts, so only piuparts-common seems sensible (piuparts will need a
Depends: piuparts-common for using piupartslib anyway).

We should look into improving end user documentation and examples, too.

And I'd like to see this running on piatti a bit longer and with at
least one partial distribution - what about experimental?
And maybe lenny2squeeze reactivated ...

And thereafter let's revisit sort-issues-by-rdep for early 0.51


Andreas