syncing from testing? [was: Quantal open for development]

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Colin,

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:23:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> There remains some question about what to do with future LTS cycles.
> Depending on the progress of work on running our own equivalent of
> Debian's testing migration (which I seriously hope will be complete by
> T, given that it's currently scheduled for quantal!), it's quite
> possible that we'll reach the point where syncing from testing merely
> introduces an extra source of delay and risk, rather than being a useful
> protection.  However, I don't think we can answer that question until we
> have some practical experience with running our own migration scripts.

To date I'm only aware that we've discussed using testing migration scripts
to ensure archive installability; our reasons for pulling from testing for
the LTS have generally had more to do with the other main aspect of testing,
namely the filtering out of release-critical bugs.  Do you foresee us doing
that kind of RC bug tracking as part of -proposed migration?

If not - and I hope not ;) - I think it will still to our advantage to track
testing for the RC bug gauntlet aspect.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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