[Pkg-xen-devel] Plans for buster

[Hans van Kranenburg]

Hi team,

On 08/22/2018 03:56 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Knorrie and I just discussed our plans for sid and buster, on the
> phone.  Here's my notes of the discussion.

Yeah, that was quite a bit more efficient than typing a lot of text on IRC.

> Plan is to upload Knorrie's 4.11 packages to experimental, to make
> them more public, while we fix the bugs in them.

This can be done from tag debian/4.11.1_pre+1.733450b39b-1_exp1 (which
is right now the same as the master branch).

> There's a list of Salsa issues and the BTS bugs list.  This
> duplication is not ideal.  We agreed that new things should go to the
> BTS.  For now we'll keep the two bug lists, and try to work on the
> Salsa list first to get it empty:
>   https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/issues

Yes, I put things in there because I can't open bugs in the BTS for a
package that does not exist yet...

> Diziet will look over the Salsa issues esp. issue 8 (xentoolcore).

I will revert the borking xentoolcore fix in a yolo branch and cause the
original ftbfs to happen again and add that info to the issue.

> We intend to hold a "virtual bug squashing party" to work on these
> issues, on Monday the 10th of September Knorrie will prepare an
> agenda and post it here.  Diziet will then send a mail to dda.

The end goal of the day will be to have the thing in a shape that can
transition from experimental to unstable.

Besides the xentoolcore issue, which is causing actual breakage now
(well, in my 4.10 -> 4.11 upgrades that I'm in now myself), it's mainly
the lintian things that I could identify. I added all lintian warnings
and errors to issues. Maybe some of them are irrelevant, some of them
are relevant.

At this point, it's important to get the 4.11 packages into sid/buster
so that users can start playing around with them, half a year before
we're gonna have a new Debian stable.

Upstream announced that the 4.12 release will be around the time that
Debian Buster releases out of deep freeze, so unless weird things
happen, I guess Buster has to ship 4.11-stable, which is the thing we're
looking at *right now*.

By the way, at work, I use the packages on Stretch by just rebuilding
them in stretch pbuilder. So, for whoever wants to use this on Stretch,
I'm paying attention to the thing being able to rebuild on it all the time.

> Re this list, which is currently on the alioth continuity plan: We
> want to move to a list.d.o list.  Knorrie will request one.

https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/HOWTO_start_list

I will write the draft which should go into the bts wishlist bug report
against the lists.debian.org pseudo-package, and post it here on our
list for review. I think it makes sense to have Ian file it because I'm
not a DD or DM.

Yay,
Knorrie