On Tue, 26.05.15 16:26, Martin Pitt (martin.p...@ubuntu.com) wrote: > Hello all, > > Dimitri John Ledkov [2015-05-26 15:12 +0100]: > > Or will there be a v220.1 release shortly with releasy fix-ups? > > Can we perhaps flip that around? I did a make dist/port our > patches/build packackages/run our tests round on May 11, but that was > before most of the recent "hiccups" landed in master. I'd rather love > to do that once I know that a release is around the corner, but as we > don't currently have "release is imminent" warnings none of the > packagers can do this as a pre-release exercise. > > So Lennart: WDYT about announcing your intent to do a stable release > on the ML, and then us packagers can do a "make dist", test an actual > tarball, and thus find all these little tarball errors, udev > regressions and what not before the official release is cut?
Well, I had been trying to stabilize things since 3 weeks before the release, I did mention it on IRC back then. I didn't announce this on the ML though, but I figure I could do that too, for the next cycle... I tend to ping some people before the release, who I know have independent test suites or care for last-minute fixes... > At least for me, the biggest part of updating to a new release is to > rebase our ~ 50 patches; doing that against a near-release tarball > will be the same amount of work; running automatic tests is negligible > human effort, and running manual tests doesn't take that long for me > (that's the point which might vastly differ for other packagers -- but > then again, testing pre-release tarballs means that not much will > change any more until the real release, so the second time testing > will be faster). 50 non-backport patches? That sounds like a lot... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
