Lucid auto-syncing with Debian testing

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 11:35:43PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> I think doko's concerns about blockage due to transition issues  from 
> Unstable to Testing are a reasonable consideration.  I think syncing from 
> Debian Unstable is fine.  IMO, most of our recent toolchain related 
> problems (Python 2.6 in Jaunty and GCC 4.4 in Karmic) were for being newer 
> than Debian Unstable.

Do you think the clarification that Ubuntu developers should consider
themselves at liberty to request syncs from unstable for anything they think
is appropriate addresses this issue?

> I wouldn't worry about Lucid +1.  LTS +1 releases are notoriously crackful. 
>  A few extra merges won't affect that significantly.

Agreed.

> I'm personally quite dissappointed this decision was taken without 
> significant community input.  IIRC, this is not what we discussed at the 
> LTS/Debian planning session at the last UDS.

This was certainly unintentional; my own recollection was that "sync from
testing" was discussed at UDS and that it was not met with any major
objections.  If I've misremembered and inadvertently kept the community out
of the loop as a result, I apologize.

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