Hi Pieter, Thank you for looking out for the PowerDNS packaging in Ubuntu!
I'm forwarding your question to the Ubuntu Release Team to ask their opinion. For your second option, remember that ordinary bugfixes are absolutely fine to land even after feature freeze, so if your subsequent alphas, betas and final release contain only bugfixes, you don't need an exception in Ubuntu to just bump up to those releases. Some questions whose answers I think would help inform any decision: When do you expect the final releases? What's your upstream support policy (EOL dates, etc) for 3.4.8 (Authoritative Server) and 3.7.3 (Recursor), and what would they be for the new versions? And what do you expect to land in terms of features (rather than bugfixes) in between now and final release? As upstream your opinion carries weight on any decision in Ubuntu too, so what do you think would be best? Thanks, Robie
--- Begin Message ---Hi all, Just before Christmas, we released alpha1 of both the PowerDNS Authoritative Server and the PowerDNS Recursor[1]. These have been packaged by Debian and uploaded to their unstable branch. Both pieces of software have several known issues (like forward-zones leading to process termination in the Recursor[2] or a temporary database error crashing the Authoritative Server[3]) that are fixed in the current master branch. We intend to release an alpha2 for both before the Xenial Debian Import Freeze on February 18th, but don't know how fast Debian will have this packaged and if it will land in Xenial. We believe that the alpha1 packages cannot be released with an Ubuntu LTS (or any Ubuntu release for that matter) because of the stability issues noted above (not to mention the amount of bug reports these packages might produce). We have 2 ideas on how this can be fixed. The first one is: revert to using 3.4.8 (Authoritative Server) and 3.7.3 (Recursor), this is possibly the easiest thing to do, although it breaks the upgrade for current Xenial users/testers (which is a small price to pay). The second one is to start the procedure to have a Freeze Exception[4] for the source packages `pdns` and `pdns-recursor`, allowing the upgrade from alpha1 to alpha2 to beta and to final release, after which the normal Ubuntu update policy will be in effect (security and critical bug fixes only). We would like to know your opinion in this matter. Best regards, Pieter Lexis 1 - http://blog.powerdns.com/2015/12/24/technical-preview-releases-of-authoritative-server-recursor-and-dnsdist/ 2 - https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/pull/3244 3 - https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/pull/3166 4 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess -- Pieter Lexis PowerDNS.COM BV -- https://www.powerdns.com -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
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