Le lundi, 10 mars 2014, 13.52:59 Ian Jackson a écrit : > Paul Wise writes ("Re: Bits from the Security Team"): > > Debian doesn't support skipping releases right now and I expect if > > we > > support releases for a longer amount of time that won't change. > > But, in practice, skip upgrades often work anyway. I'd encourage > maintainers not to gratuitously break them. For example, aggressively > removing compatibility code is a bad idea. (It's bad for our > downstreams too).
I, for one, have been routinely dropping transitional binary packages that were in the latest stable; they were needed to migrate from (the releases which are now) oldstable to stable but are only archive noise now. Delaying that cleanup for an additional stable release cycle really feels like unnecessary delay, during which we pretend to maintain code that hardly anyone tests. The problem is that there is no policy in place to make us support oldstable-to-testing upgrades. If there's interest, that'd need to be decided with a more firm policy than "encourage maintainers". Cheers, OdyX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/69734414.qmXaMjuj1O@gyllingar