On 17/06/23 16:53, Harshula wrote:
On 17/6/23 23:26, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
I understand your request and I fully support having better OS
information in unstable and testing (see my request to base-files in
bug #1021663 [1]).
Since package updates transition from unstable to testing, can you
please elaborate on how this would be fixed in the base-files package?
The automatic migration is not a straitjacket. :)
One can use the mechanism discussed in section 5.14.3 of the Developer's
Reference [1]:
1) Block the automatic migration via britney/excuses.
2) When a new version is released, dput two different versions: one into
unstable and one into testing-proposed-updates.
To reduce the amount of work needed for each update of `base-files`,
`/etc/os-release` can be moved to package like `debian-version-info`, so
the manual double upload must be done only once per release cycle.
[1]
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#direct-updates-to-testing
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
