question about upsteam version tracking

[Ansgar]

On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 10:11 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> (v247-stable)$ git diff v247.3..v247.6 | diffstat
> ...
>   130 files changed, 1651 insertions(+), 1570 deletions(-)
> 
> I'm not sure, if the release team would ack such a change. I'm 
> skeptical, especially since systemd / udev is a key package.

I'm not sure about before the release, but we do include new upstream
bugfix releases of packages like Postgresql or the Linux kernel in
stable releases.  Postgresql is also a key package, though "only"
because of popcon[1].  And Firefox even gets new major releases, but I
think new Postgresl bugfix releases are the better comparison here.

So new systemd stable releases (i.e. 247.3 -> 247.6) might be
acceptable to get included in point releases, but it obviously depends
on the changes.  I don't think the diffstat above would be too large a
problem.

Ansgar

  [1]: https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/key_packages.yaml.cgi