On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 05:54:32AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Loïc Minier [2013-02-28 18:27 +0100]: > > New series are super expensive to create, need coordination in a bunch > > of places etc. and it means we're using the release dist upgrade > > mechanisms rather than updating packages. > > It wouldn't need to be a full series in the Launchpad sense; we could > use a pocket, which is much more lightweight.
Using existing ones is lightweight. Creating entirely new ones is even more heavyweight than creating new series, and very scary; their semantics are hardcoded in a variety of ad-hoc ways all over the LP codebase. > E. g. "raring" would take the role of "monthly" while the raring-daily > pocket would take the role of "rolling release"; this could even be > raring-updates, we don't use this pocket right now and it's already > there. We have discussed using raring-updates, indeed. Reconfigure proposed-migration to copy into -updates, then bulk-copy to the release pocket once a month just in time to prepare the monthly image release. While I think monthly image releases make sense, I don't personally like the notion of monthly updates at all; I think they're pretty artificial and it would be better to do an excellent job of the rolling release rather than dividing our attention between two similar things, and there are some awkward chicken-and-egg implementation problems relating to how monthly image releases are prepared. But if we have to do them then the above is the obvious sensible way to do it. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
