Pinging this again, with follow up to try to push this through. I propose that we allow backports with no associated bug if all these conditions are met:
1) The package has already been accepted into the backports pocket for the target, or older (still supported), LTS release. In order to avoid requiring a bug to backport to each new release, a backport into an older LTS release satisfies this for a newer release; e.g. a package already in backports for 22.04 satisfies this requirement to backport into 24.04 (and 24.10 if the package already has a non-LTS backport exception) once it is released. 2) The backport contains no code changes; the only change is a new backport entry in the changelog. The Backports Team reviewer may waive this requirement if they feel any changes are minor. 3) The Backports Team reviewer has no concerns or questions after reviewing the backport. The reviewer may, for any reason, reject the backport and request a reupload with a bug. If we limit the no-bug backports to just that criteria, then it's pretty easy to check items #1 and #2 during review, and approve the upload if everything looks good (which is usually the case for the few packages we regularly see backported, at least so far). This would also require new backports to always open a bug for at least the first backport. Any thoughts? Let's try to come to some agreement on this at the first 2024 meeting. On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 7:43 PM Daniel Streetman <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is to start/continue the discussion from the last meeting, to get clear > wording on what backports the team will accept without a corresponding bug. > > For reference, discussion was started at the last mtg: > https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2022/01/26/%23ubuntu-meeting.html > > My first thought is no-bug backports should have no code changes at all from > the later release (i.e. only the change in package version to add the BPO > suffix). Maybe that's too restrictive though? -- ubuntu-backports mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
