On 2017-06-01 22:15, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
Please unblock package webkit2gtk for inclusion in Debian 9.0.
[...]
Sadly, Debian's security packaging infrastructure is not set up to
test this kind of update very well.
I'm not entirely sure how you think p-u is better placed to do so, given
the amount of visible testing packages from it get before a point
release.
To provide a reasonable balance
between security for Debian 9 users and API stability for apps, the
current proposal [2] is to use Debian's s-p-u procedures and get these
updates into Debian point releases.
No. For the record, what Moritz actually said was:
"You're best technical bet would be to upgrade to new webkit releases in
stretch point releases, this would allow proper binNMUs and allow
people to testdrive via s-p-u. But that's up for the SRMs to
decide (and I doubt they want to deal with that kind of API
"stability" either)."
There's a huge leap from there to you assuming that SRM will be happy to
do this without any form of actual discussion. Unblock bugs are *not*
the way to have that discussion, and two weeks before release is a
really poor time to attempt to do so.
Regards,
Adam
