2012/6/19 Nils Ludvig Brandtzæg <[email protected]>: > So "testing" will soon point to kiel instead of dublin? Do you have an > estimate of when for example subversion-1.7.5 (currently in unstable) > will be in testing?
We don't have any estimates right now, sorry. There's an ongoing project to upgrade OpenSSL. It isn't trivial, because dependencies between binaries and libraries sometimes cause two versions of the SSL library to be loaded at the same time, which causes crashes, or failed checks. binary1 → libssl.so.1.0.0 binary1 → library1 library1 → libssl.so.0.9.8 (ouch!) There's a project tracking page for the rebuild effort, you can get a sense how much work it requires: http://wiki.opencsw.org/project-openssl We won't be able to responsibly call this “testing”, before the upgrade to openssl-1.0.0 is complete, or at least when we know that there are no double linkages between binaries. Once we get that sorted out, we'll think about promoting unstable to testing. But this means that we have to make space for new testing, by promoting dublin to stable. We think that we can't just flip the symlink. If there are users who pull packages from stable, and suddenly upgrade a lot of packages from the 2008 package catalog to the 2012 state, they might get a lot of problems, and we don't want that. We need to warn users about this, and we don't really have a mechanism to do this reliably. See this discussion: http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2012-March/016249.html There are some ideas to implement catalog checking in pkgutil, but there are still sites using pkg-get, so we're not sure we can depend on pkgutil either. Maybe intentionally breaking upgrades from the stable URL for a period of, say, 6 months or so, would do the job. So, overall, there is a number of issues and a lot of work ahead of us. As far as the promotion of dublin to stable is concerned, input from users would be greatly appreciated. Do people still use stable? Does anyone have performed a migration/upgrade from stable to dublin? If so, how did it go? Maciej _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
