Regarding NEW and ftp-master approval

[Sven Mueller]

Fabian Fagerholm wrote on 23/10/2006 20:37:
> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 19:02 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 
>>On 2006-10-23 Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at paniq.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Another question is convincing the FTP-masters to allow cyrus-sasl-2.1
>>>into sid and then etch.
>>
>>That is not necessary. If it is accepted in experimental, a following
>>upload to sid without *more* newly introduced packages does not
>>require NEW processing and ftp-master acceptance. - ftp-master would
>>need to actively block it.
> 
> Steve Langasek tells me that cyrus-sasl2 (the old package) is frozen. So
> even though going through NEW for an experimental upload allows us to
> upload directly to sid without going through NEW, I don't think we
> should do that without agreeing with the FTP-masters first.

Well, we should at least notify the FTP-masters when doing the sid
upload. Getting their OK first shouldn't be necessary.

>>Must haves:
>>* seamless upgrade. - Doesn't the upgrade to db4.4 require some
>>  handholding in the maintainerscripts? - Or does upstream's code
>>  itself automatically db-upgrade its data sorces?
> 
> AFAIK, there is no auto-upgrade of data sources. So we have to take a
> look at converting. I think Cyrus IMAPd does something similar, so we
> could perhaps reuse some code from there.

Cyrus-IMAPd 2.2 at least doesn't do any automatic BDB upgrades IIRC.
That's simply because it uses the same (relatively old) BDB that
cyrus-imapd 2.1 used and we don't support automatic upgrades from 2.X to
2.Y anyway. Cyrus-IMAPd traditionally lacked such support (for
relatively good reasons, the config files and directory layouts changed
quite a bit from version to version, only the 2.1 to 2.2 upgrade is
easier) and nobody on the team had the time to implement automatic
upgrades for the 2.2 packages yet.

Regards,
Sven
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