On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this a minimal bug-fix release that is intended for inclusion in > trixie during hard freeze? > > If not, as per https://release.debian.org/trixie/freeze_policy.html > please upload new upstream releases only to Ubuntu and/or experimental > for now. Jeremy requested in > https://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2025/05/msg00001.html that we > mostly should not upload GNOME 49 to Debian right now, not even in > experimental, to be able to use experimental as a staging area for > possible trixie updates (although we did make an exception to that for > glib2.0). > > Obviously it's too late for this particular package, and if we need an > urgent bug fix before Debian 13.0, we'll have to version it as > 60+really59-1 or similar; but hopefully we won't need that for this > particular package in practice, and by sending this message I'm hoping > we can avoid a similar situation for GNOME packages that *do* need > trixie updates.
I chatted with the other Ubuntu GNOME contributors and I believe we agree to avoid uploads to experimental during this stage of the freeze. That seems easier for everyone to understand and follow than making exceptions. I assume that once Debian 13 is released, we can use experimental for 49.x uploads. I think for Debian 12, we tried to keep Unstable and Testing reserved for things that could plausibly land in Debian Stable until 12.1. If that makes sense to everyone, we could do that for 13.1. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
