Proposed pocket racing uninstallability and SRU verification around release time

[Iain Lane]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 09:58:45AM +0000, Adam Conrad wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 06:02:35PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > 
> > The only complication I'm aware of is that we absolutely must have different
> > apt preferences behavior for chroots - such as buildd chroots - than for end
> > user systems; but that should be solvable by using a preferences.d file
> > shipped in the right package.  Probably either software-properties-common or
> > ubuntu-release-upgrader-core?
> 
> That's backwards.  If you want the default to be safe, and the exception to
> be the wild west, we should configure it *just* like backports.  NotAutomatic
> on the server side, no surprises for people without the right apt preferences
> bits in place.
> 
> The buildd chroots already carry a pin for backports to reverse the effect of
> NotAutomatic, and could as easily do so for proposed, if there was consensus
> that this behaviour change is the Way and the Light.

FYI, there's an ancient bug for turning this on per-series, with a
maybe-stale implementation.

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1016776

If I remember correctly I didn't push on it more because of the LoC
policy that was in place at the time.

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
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