Quantal archive rebuild proposal

[Micah Gersten]

On 04/27/2012 06:23 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 06:11:38PM -0500, Micah Gersten wrote:
>> On 04/27/2012 06:00 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 05:46:50PM -0500, Micah Gersten wrote:
>>>> Now that we can use -proposed during development, the only arch skew
>>>> should be from autosyncs.
>>> I don't think that's a realistic assessment of how -proposed will be used in
>>> practice.  We should not be duplicating the entirety of Debian's testing
>>> propagation - doing so would bring a whole set of other problems that we are
>>> not currently set up to handle.
>> The main arch skew issues in the past regarding builds as I remember
>> them are glib, gtk, and openjdk which we all upload directly.  Wasn't
>> the intent to use proposed for these updates during the devel cycle?
> We should use -proposed for *select* uploads to the development release. 
> But you said "the only arch skew should be from autosyncs", which I do not
> expect to be true at all. :)
Yes, of course, we're not replacing the testing migration from Debian,
nor will every potential skew upload go through -proposed. However, arch
skews should be less than in past releases now that we can use -proposed
for potentially disruptive uploads.
Micah