Hey ubuntu release! Reading https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze it doesn't seem to cover packaging changes, but renaming a binary can have an high impact on the archive. I'm proposing that we add 'starting a transition' as something that requires a ffe.
Why? The practical situation that made me check the definition is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libffi/+bug/1943288. The libffi soname means that some days before beta we are having - lot of rebuilds which are keeping the builders busy and creating delays - packages blocked in proposed for over a week, beta freeze is monday (which means tomorrow if we don't count on people working during the weekend) - our fixes and improvement not landing on the daily ISO and tested before beta This is going to have a negative impact on our beta quality, I think the freezes should protect us against those disturbances. (the libffi update might be covered by the current rules so let's not discuss that particular case. We could take a poppler update as an example instead since upstream bumps the soname at every new version even if those include no API changes and only bugfixes) Thanks for considering, Sebastien Bacher -- Ubuntu-release mailing list Ubuntu-release@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
