question about upsteam version tracking

[Michael Biebl]

Am 19.04.2021 um 10:53 schrieb 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.

I actually thought about that as well.
Keep unstable at v247 even after the release. Then update it to the 
latest v247-stable release and try to get this into the first point 
release. Only after that, I'd update unstable to v248.

WDYT?