Hello, I would like to request that the qapt and muon packages for the LibQApt and Muon Suite projects be added to the list of micro-release exceptions for SRUs. [1]
The Muon Suite (and its "guts" LibQApt) play a major role as Kubuntu's package management tools. As package management is a core part of the system, it is crucial to keep a steady flow of fixes to the official distribution channel. At the same time, this means that these updates must come with a certain level of caution. Both projects come with monthly bugfix micro-releases keeping with KDE's point release update policy [2], for which KDE itself in Kubuntu has a similar exception. [1] Speaking with my upstream hat on, the micro release update model that Muon and QApt have used has worked wonderfully for the year that it has been in effect, with a total of seven micro releases that have both stuck to the release policy with no regressions. The most recent micro release for the 1.2 series [3][4], which Kubuntu 11.10 is based on, contains several fixes that would be cumbersome to SRU individually. These include: - A fix for installing foreign-arch packages on multiarch-enabled systems. (Multi-Arch libraries install fine with the current version, but foreign-arch runtime packages such as skype cannot be installed) - Several fixes for the QApt GDebi equivalent that fix some serious flakiness that the tool had. Additionally, there are several easily-verifiable fixes to some UI bugs in Muon which also have a quite low risk of regression. Cheers, Jonathan [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions [2] http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Minor_Point_Release_Policy [3] https://projects.kde.org/news/94 [4] https://projects.kde.org/news/95 -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
