On Saturday, 7 February 2026 8:47:34 pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time Adam D. Barratt wrote: > I noticed that there's a zabbix upload in the stable-new queue for > trixie, which appears to have been prepared by you. > > It's quite a large update (a gzip of the debdiff is 8MB and the > diffstat "1995 files changed, 519537 insertions(+), 268166 deletions(- > )"), but I can't see a p-u bug or any other discussion about the > upload.
Discussion happened in [email protected] primarily with Moritz Mühlenhoff. Agreement was to treat Zabbix akin to "firefox-esr" with direct upload to stable/proposed-updates because "zabbix" package follows upstream "LTS" releases that are reasonably conservative in regards to changes. (Large diff is partially due to non-code changes in templates, etc.) "README.Debian.security" [1] was added to package and approved by Moritz. Who else should normally acknowledge change in approach to stable uploads? (Please forgive my lack of familiarity with process -- it is my very first package to be treated with exception.) > The version of the package is higher than the package in unstable, > which is incorrect. Sorry about that. It is due to my lack of familiarity with uploading to stable (which I did not do in years). I assumed that "dch --stable" would handle version like "dch --bpo" does, but apparently manual change from "+deb13u1" to "~deb13u1" is required... Duly noted. If I have to upload Zabbix to "trixie" in the future, should I open a bug report to seek your pre-approval? Are "firefox-esr" uploads to "stable" accompanied by bug reports? What is the normal/expected procedure and where it is documented? > It also appears that you've already uploaded the > same upstream version to trixie-backports. Yes, but upload to backports is not a substitute for upload to stable. Uploads to "stable" are primarily motivated by security concerns and they are not intended to mirror each upload to backports. > Please could you clarify. As you may have already noticed, yesterday Bastien Roucaries (re-)uploaded the very same package (zabbix 1:7.0.22+dfsg-1~deb13u1) to "stable" as "Non Maintainer Upload by LTS Team". [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/zabbix/-/blob/master/debian/README.Debian.security Thank you. -- Best wishes, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/52B6BBD953968D1B --- I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. -- G. K. Chesterton
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