Generalizing SRU policy for special cases/MREs - v2

[Martin Pitt]

Hello all,

Martin Pitt [2015-09-01 16:42 +0200]:
> over the years our SRU policy [1] has accumulated a fair amount of
> special cases [2] and exceptions for new microreleases [3]. There is a
> lot of commonality between them, mostly related to automated testing.
> Since most of these were added, a lot of projects have moved to a CI
> based development model; this includes Ubuntu itself, which is now
> running package integration tests for both the development series [4]
> and SRUs [5].
> 
> The attached patch against [1] is my proposal for updating the SRU
> policy accordingly. It mostly extends the "When" section for the cases
> that we've seen in practice, and reduces [2] to just documentation
> about three packages (kernel, landscape, tzdata), which don't include
> a changed policy, just a "how to update this".
> 
> This should go together with dropping [3]. A lot of the existing
> entries in [3] now fall under the revised "New upstream microreleases"
> policy (e. g. postfix, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, firefox, mesa), and others
> have been obsolete for quite a while (Ubuntu One, bzr). The section at
> the bottom ("SRU verification for Micro Release Exceptions") was
> included into the main [1] documentation (in spirit, not verbatim). I
> believe that the page [3] has never been very well maintained, as
> things become obsolete, there is no clear distinction between
> provisional and full exceptions, etc. Thus I believe setting a general
> policy and instead asking for linking to the QA policy in SRU bugs is
> a better and more dynamic approach.
> 
> Comments, language improvements, etc much appreciated!

This is a revised version which includes Scott's change and some
clarification.

Thanks,

Martin
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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