Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

Hi, [As the main liferea uploader and the one that implemented this there.] On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 09:46:28 +0100 Simon McVittie wrote: > liferea, a RSS feed reader, uses Ubuntu RSS feeds by default when unpacked > on Ubuntu. This is a patch to XML configuration files, so would not be > trivial to d

Re: Is an MBF and unblock for packages introducing new files in /bin or /sbin or /lib in Bookworm acceptable at this stage?

Hi, On 21-05-2023 21:22, Luca Boccassi wrote: If we were to do a MBF against packages that in _Bookworm_ have introduced new files in /bin, /sbin or /lib*, would you accept the consequent mass unblock request? Short answer is no, it's too late. Paul OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP di

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

Hi, [Release Team member hat on, but I only voice my opinion as a member]. On the use of tpu: Personally, until now I fail to see enough value of being able to distinguish unstable and testing to give the package carrying /etc/os-release a permanent exception via tpu. On Debian version numbe

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

Hi On 03-08-2024 11:58, Luca Boccassi wrote: On the use of tpu: Personally, until now I fail to see enough value of being able to distinguish unstable and testing to give the package carrying /etc/os-release a permanent exception via tpu. Thanks for chiming in - assuming for a moment that it i

Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

Hi Wouter, On Sat, 3 Aug 2024 20:07:14 +0200 Wouter Verhelst wrote: In the nbd autopkgtest, I need to do a debootstrap of "whatever we are currently running". That code starts off with "parse os-release", and then falls back to a horrible horrible perl script that parses apt-cache policy output