[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#910493: Bug#910493: Bug#910493: Handle transition from MAT to MAT2

[Jonas Meurer]

Hi all,

Georg Faerber:
> On 19-02-22 23:26:45, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>> I skimmed through the patch and it looks good to me. I also did some
>> rough testing and at least with my test files it worked as expected.
>>
>> I merged jvoisin's changes into the d/0.7.0-2 branch.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your inputs, reviews and changes -- highly appreciated.
> 
> I've got some serious issues currently with my keyboard, which makes
> working at my PC quite a pain, but I'll take care of the upload in time
> to ensure -2 will migrate before the full freeze on March 12th.
> 
> My current plan looks like the following:
> 
> - Let -1 migrate to testing, which should happen on Thursday, February
>   28th.
> 
>   This is to ensure a minimal diff between testing and unstable, in case
>   the migration of -2 gets delayed for whatever reason, -2 won't
>   therefore migrate before the full freeze, and we need to ask for an
>   freeze exception. AFAIK, minimal diffs have a higher chance to be
>   accepted than bigger ones.
> 
> - I'll upload -2 either tomorrow or the day after via the delayed queue,
>   or on Thursday. In any case, -2 should migrate on March 10th, if all
>   goes well. I'm on travel, so can't pinpoint a specific time now, but
>   be assured that the upload is upcoming.
> 
> - I plan to pull in three upstream bug fixes as well, see [1], [2] and [3].

After I slept a night over it, I realized that this plan doesn't take
into account our options to still handle the mat1 -> mat2 transition in
time for buster. After all we agreed on that mat(1) should better not be
shipped with buster. Now that we have at least a Nautilus extension for
mat2, there's no blocker for the mat -> mat2 transitoon anymore, no?

If we ask ftpmasters and the Release Team for help, there might still be
a chance to get a mat2 with a new transitional 'mat' binary package into
buster, don't you think so?

What do you think about the following:

1. Ask ftpmaster and Release Team for their opinions on this matter
2. Upload mat2 0.7.0-2 with new transitional binary package 'mat'
3. Since it will sit in NEW for a few days anyway, maybe 0.7.0-1 will
   transition to buster in the meantime. If not, no worries - we want to
   get 0.7.0-2 into buster anyway.

Maybe you could give short replies on whether you're in favour of this
plan. I would contact ftpmasters and Release Team as soon as I get some
positive feedback.

Cheers
 jonas

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