On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 9:10 AM Robie Basak <robie.ba...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 04:27:31PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > This is now ready to use from the Launchpad point of view.  There's a
> > "proposed_not_automatic" flag on distro series exported over the API; if
> > this is set to True, Launchpad writes "NotAutomatic: yes" and
> > "ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes" to the Release file.  We've also arranged
> > for *-proposed to be pinned to 500 in launchpad-buildd, so Launchpad
> > builds will ignore this; I can't speak for other build environments.
> >
> > Thus, from the Launchpad point of view this is ready to use, although
> > somebody may want to check the behaviour of things like sbuild and
> > pbuilder first.
>
> Thank you Colin for the work!
>
> If sbuild/pbuilder need adjusting, then maybe we need to do that and
> then give developers some time to update their chroots so that we don't
> break them (in non-obvious ways) all at once.
>
> Another thought is that if there turns out to be an unintended
> consequence for users enabling jammy-proposed (after Jammy's release),
> then we'll have done that to them in an LTS instead of hitting an
> interim release first.

This is certainly a concern for me...this kind of change seems like
it's more appropriate for an interim release.

> That might adversely affect SRU verification
> workflow. But given that jammy-proposed is (after release) specifically
> for opt-in and more-risky-than-stable testing, perhaps that doesn't
> warrant delaying until Keen.
>
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