On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 11:06:49PM +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > Hi Dominic > > On 2023-02-27 15:50:05 +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 04:54:33PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > > > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On 20-02-2023 13:09, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > > If the release team would be willing to grant an exception to the policy > > > > to get this done, we can get this wrapped up inside a week I expect. > > > > > > Can you please confirm that everything is ready to do this? I.e. there is > > > no > > > "this should work but we haven't tested it" cases. If yes, then please > > > upload the packages that involve new binaries to experimental and when > > > those > > > are passed NEW, ping this bug. If no surprises pop up, we'll grant an > > > exception, but we want everything fully ready before doing so. > > > > Thanks, yep. We had planned out this transition and I feel confident > > the rest of it will work out (worst case we need to drop a barely > > used extension package somewhere). > > > > Andrew and I are working on this at the moment and will ping this bug > > when it's fully staged. > > What's the status of this transition?
Hi Sebastian Sorry for the long delay. Myself and, I think, Andrew have been short on time. The transition is basically ready to go, but I've been rethinking the need to drop request-tracker4, given it will all be quite tight. It turns out that request-tracker4 is still supported upstream (https://bestpractical.com/release-policy) and there's no specific EoL set. When we first started the plan to deprecate request-tracker4 in Debian, I think we were assuming otherwise. The package is in good shape and I believe otherwise ready to be released. If Andrew is in agreement, I therefore think we should let request-tracker4 be released with the next release. We can reconsider whether to drop it from the release + 1 at a more leisurely pace. The work we've done to date will not be wasted effort. I've tentatively downgraded #1030749 to signal this intent. Cheers Dominic
