On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 06:43:02PM +0100, Tomasz Muras wrote:
> On 03/11/2013 05:22 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> >Just to clarify before I do it: stable stays as it is; remove moodle
> >from Wheezy and you will work on the basis of getting 2.5 into Jessie?
> >Intermediate versions can always go into backports of course.
> 
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 02:40:55PM -0400, Hubert Chathi wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:43:02 +0100, Tomasz Muras <nexor1...@gmail.com> said:
> 
> > Correct. 1.9 is still supported (it won't be for long) and can stay in
> > stable.  I am thinking that I would would package 2.5 and then 2.6 in
> > unstable and do not let it migrate into testing - unless LTS upstream
> > version is released. Does it make sense?

Yes.

> AFAIK, if a package is not intended to go into testing, it should be in
> experimental rather than unstable.

Unstable is fine. Protecting unstable doesn't make any sense for a package
that isn't in testing anyway. When the freeze is lifted normal transition
will take place.

> > One thing I'm not sure about is what will happen to current users of
> > moodle package. They have 1.9 in squeeze, there will be nothing in
> > wheezy but then the package will appear back in jessie - but with no
> > upgrade path. The only way to get moodle back will be to drop the
> > package completely (and drop DB) and re-install it. Of course we could
> > provide some manual instructions to install 2.2 package and then
> > upgrade to 2.4.
> 
> IIRC, technically, we wouldn't need to worry about upgrades, since we
> only need to do upgrades from the previous Debian release.  Of course,
> that's not a very nice thing to do.  One option is to provide a 2.2 deb
> package that they can download from some other repository (we could
> probably dump it somewhere in Alioth).  That would probably be easier
> than having to install 2.2 via a non-deb method.  And you could add a
> preinst script in the 2.5 package that would abort the upgrade if the
> user tries to upgrade from 1.9.

This is why I suggest using wheezy-backports.

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