On 14.07.21 13:47, Michael Biebl wrote:
Am 14.07.21 um 12:59 schrieb Simon McVittie:
Would it be feasible for dak to have a list of binary package name
regexes mapped to a source package and a section/priority, and
auto-accept
packages from the given source package that match the regex, assigning
the given section/priority, without manual action? That would let the
ftp team pre-approve src:systemd to ship /^libsystemd-shared-[0-9]+$/
in libs/optional, for example.
It seems like this would also be good for src:linux, where ABI breaks
are often tied to security fixes that should enter the archive ASAP.
If something fully automated like this would be implemented, I would
have much less concerns with this option.
As it stands today, NEW processing is simply to unpredictable. It can
range from taking a a few hours/days to several months.
And yet it should not dictate technical solutions. We basically see the
same thing with nvidia-graphics-drivers that break your running
applications when the libraries are upgraded and you don't reboot.
Arguably the proper solution is to version them with the full
major/minor version. But I can see how that's a total hassle with NEW
processing for both for the maintainer and to the FTP team.
I do recall that the FTP masters would've been generally open to have
such an auto-approver (but maybe I'm wrong), but that no-one stepped up
yet to code it up?
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
