Hi Ken, Thanks for raising this, I've had a hunch things are still a bit dodgy in this area for a while now.
I'm overall not very happy with Debian's DNS configuration story and I've been meaning to have a go at improving the situation, but so far I haven't been able to focus on it. If you want to have a stab at collaborating on improving the situation consider me your condiuit. As a DD with a good grasp of Debian's "process" and politics I can help you make the necessary changes happen. On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 04:12:08PM +0100, Ken Milmore wrote: > With trixie release coming up, I would not expect to see any enthusiasm > for making these sorts of changes across multiple packages. Consider me, at least, enthused :-). As long as potential breakage is contained to one or two packages and the time window is reasonably small I'd consider this a "small, targeted fix". I don't see this violating the current soft freeze policy. We can get pre-clearance from release-team in any case, develop in experimental and upload to unstable when ready. Business as usual. Hard freeze on 2025-05-15 will make changes more beurocratic and slow, so if we'd want to have a go at this it'd be best to get something together before then. However any DNS breakage easily qualifies for a severity:serious RC bug which we can fix any time before the release as long as the change diff is reasonably small and we can motivate the change to release team. --Daniel <3
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