[Pkg-puppet-devel] Plans for Squeeze?

Nigel Kersten nigel at explanatorygap.net
Mon Oct 4 14:34:45 UTC 2010


2010/10/4 Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm at debian.org>:
> Mathias Gug <mathiaz at ubuntu.com> writes:
>
>> I'd suggest 2.6.1 with the *old* structure.
>
> I agree.
>
> I'll merge and push a new squeeze-2.6.1 branch to alioth with 2.6.1 from
> upstream, and with the 2.6.0 packaging.
>
> After this, I guess we'll need to ask debian-release nicely.  We would
> need something like:
>
> ,----
> | We wish to upgrade puppet from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 in squeeze.  The reason
> | for this is that 2.6.0 contains too many upstream bugs.
> |
> | We will keep the packaging currently in use for 2.6.0.
> |
> | Puppet 2.6.1 is primarily a bug fix release, the changelog at
> | http://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/2.6.1/CHANGELOG lists a
> | number of bugs affecting usability.
> |
> | We have cherry-picked a number of commits from 2.6.1 to 2.6.0 to fix
> | upstream bugs, but a large number of bugs in 2.6.0 are still unfixed
> | in the debian package.  Cherry-picking the rest of the upstream bug
> | fixes, if possible, would create a Debian version of puppet that
> | differs from both 2.6.0 and 2.6.1, and would be harder to support.
> `----
>
> Does this look right?  Is it enough?  Any other points that might help?

I think that gets the point across perfectly.

I'm a little concerned we'll be in the same spot with 2.6.2... but
we're trying to iterate faster upstream, so hopefully we can cherry
pick without too much hassle.



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