Hi, On 20-05-2023 23:26, Holger Wansing wrote:
And the last point is the integration into the debhelper tools: I don't know if it is required, to have the release-notes fit for building as a whole package with sbuild or debuild or similar. Salsa tries to build it via CI at every push, but currently fails.It's possible I've misunderstood, but would be the goals here to be to get the release-notes documentation built by CI, and also for it to be distributed as a Debian package itself? (someone who knows more may correct me, but I think it would be great to have the package available for install using apt in addition to the website)That was my first thought as well, yes.
At the price this may have been answered already, I think the current release notes are not packages because typically a lot of the relevant changes get updated in the weeks *around* the release. So one would have an outdated release notes. On top of that, most "issues to be aware of while upgrading" won't be so useful if you already upgraded. Having said that, I don't mind we make it a package, we just need to be clear of what the purpose is inside a release.
Also, on the topic of arch-specific builds, I not convinced it's worth a lot of effort. The amount of arch specific pieces is rather limited, so I wouldn't mind if we drop that altogether. Currently, we don't do a great service to people that need to support multiple architectures, because they need to *search* for the delta's, so I wouldn't be surprised if it is even better if we drop it.
Paul
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