[tryton-debian] Tryton in jessie

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Sorry for the late reply.

On 23/09/14 01:07, Mathias Behrle wrote:
> * Emilio Pozuelo Monfort: " Re: Tryton in jessie" (Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:03:05
>   +0200):
> 
>> On 22/09/14 12:05, Mathias Behrle wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the current version of Tryton in testing is 3.2, the release of next
>>> version 3.4 is announced for 20.11.2014. Security and bugfix support by
>>> upstream is limited to 2 years per series, so we would like to ship Tryton
>>> version 3.4 with jessie.
>>>
>>> The Tryton project publishes bug fix releases approximately per month,
>>> those bugs being in Debian categorization mainly of severity 'normal' to
>>> 'important'. In our experience evtl. bugs of a new Tryton series are mainly
>>> cleaned out with the two to three bug fix releases following the initial
>>> release.
>>>
>>> That said, I am asking beforehand for slots for at least two (better three)
>>> bug fix releases to provide the best user experience for our Tryton users.
>>>
>>> Does this meet the approval of the release team?
>>
>> So you're asking for:
>>
>> - A freeze exception for a 3.4 upload in late November.
>> - 2 or 3 freeze exceptions around December, January and February.
>>
>> Unless I completely misunderstood you, that's a no-go.
> 
> Sorry for mixing up the release date of 3.4. It is indeed due to 20.10.2014, so
> the initial upload would be before the freeze, of course.

If you uploaded it on the 20th, with the 10 day delay it could hit testing on
the 30th, before the freeze on November the 5th. Assuming no RC bugs / build
failures pop up.

>> Any uploads after the
>> freeze will need to go through the normal unblock process and only bug fixes
>> are likely to be accepted, especially as we get deeper into the freeze.
> 
> According to the correct release date, the requested freeze exceptions for the
> bug fix releases would then evaluate to November, December and evtl. January.
> I would like to notice, that the bug fix releases of the project are strictly
> conservative and never introduced any regressions to my knowledge.

I'm not comfortable with granting this exception (especially for the
December/January ones), so I won't. Any updates after the freeze will need to go
through the normal freeze exception process, and I can't guarantee that new
upstream releases will be approved.

Regards,
Emilio