[Pkg-javascript-devel] node-babel7 migrtion to unstable

[Pirate Praveen]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 3:49 pm, Xavier <yadd at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to upload node-babel7 to unstable. This requires to also push
> node-rollup-plugin-babel and node-gulp-babel to unstable. Looking at
> https://release.debian.org/britney/pseudo-excuses-experimental.html ,
> this seems not to generate any problem (I fixed node-micromatch, not
> usable by rollup < 2).
> 
> Do you agree ? Can anybody tests more ?
> 

No, please don't upload. Especially for packages with a lot of reverse 
dependencies. Please don't depend only on autopkgtests when uploading 
to unstable, we have to run rebuilds also.

build script from https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/meta/ can do this 
rebuild tests and autopkgtests. I will try to run some tests, but not 
right now.

Whoever doing such major version updates should take responsibility to 
run autopkgtest and rebuild tests and filing bugs when packages fail. 
Also sufficient time should be given to fix the breakages before 
uploading to unstable. This is standard procedure when doing C library 
transitions and we should follow it too.

Filing bugs also helps later to troubleshoot and fix the failures 
easily.