Hello, On 12-06-2009, Stéphane Glondu <[email protected]> wrote: > David MENTRE a écrit : >> Regarding Ubuntu, the Debian Import Freeze is set to the 25th of June. >> After that date, packages can be synchronized upon request until the >> 13th of August. >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule >> >> Currently, nearly all (i.e. except 3 packages) are on 3.11.0. >> >> According to your planning, it would mean that OCaml 3.11.1 would be >> uploaded now (12th of June) and all other packages rebuilt after the >> 23th of June. It could break the current OCaml status on Ubuntu. I >> don't know if massive rebuild of packages (binNMU???) is possible on >> Ubuntu. > > Not right now (I would like to wait for the remaining of the OCaml team, > and the release team approvals), but certainly before the 25th of June. > I guess there will be a lot of binNMUs (at least 50, maybe 100, out of > 139 packages or so), and I don't know either how Ubuntu manages this > kind of task. > >> Why do you think of this? >> >> Of course, I would very much have OCaml 3.11.1 on Karmic but that >> might be difficult to do in such a short time frame. > > I think it's up to the Ubuntu release managers to decide. FYI, the last > transition (to 3.11.0) took 1.5 months since the first upload to > unstable, but it was a big transition: a new major version of OCaml, and > big changes in our way to do things that caused > 100 sourceful uploads. > The feature freeze for Karmic is set at the end of August, so 2.5 months > from now. So it looks like there is time, but rebuilds must be handled > efficiently (this is still an unknown to me). If you decide not to ship > 3.11.1, care must be taken to not import ocaml 3.11.1 from sid. > >
I think we are too tigh regarding time. I prefer that Ubuntu ship a good 3.11.0 release than to have to fight for months to get a 3.11.1. Moreover, we can use 3.11.1 transition to stress test dh-ocaml after we have add some functionnalities (like automatic dependencies). This will made us wait until, at least, Debcamp. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
