[ANN] What with all these releases ?

[Martin Pool]

On 24 September 2010 07:14, Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> wrote:

>    > It was, subject to reenabling tests during builds, and testing the
>    > packages after building.
>
> I think we should do that for 2.2.2 and the 2.3 series at best:
>
> - I suspect we will encounter problems with testtools and 2.0 (we made
>  some changes that we didn't backport to 2.0 IIRC),
>
> - I fear some return of the leaking tests or any other spurious failure
>
> Or we could just decide to activate the tests during the build starting
> with the 2.2 series and rely on manual test after installation for the
> SRUs of 2.1 and 2.0 ?

That makes sense to me.  We can just ignore any known-to-be-unisolated
failures when testing from the installed 2.0 and 2.1.

>    > They do still want figurehead bugs.
>
> This applies to the current releases as well as the next ones AIUI, but
> I still don't know how to prepare a packaging branch for that :-/
>
> Any takers ? Max ?
>
> The bugs to nominate are:
>
> - 2.2.1: http://pad.lv/636930
> - 2.1.3: http://pad.lv/525571
> - 2.0.6: http://pad.lv/582656

You don't need to make a branch (though it would be good to try it
sometime), but to make a packaging branch you just need to tag the bug
'sru' and nominate it as in
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates.  There's a summary in
the developer docs of what we have to do.  (It can be improved.)

-- 
Martin