Please lift aging requirement on gce-compute-image-packages in the stable release exception

Balint Reczey balint.reczey at canonical.com
Thu Jul 26 15:05:11 UTC 2018


Dear Release Team,

Robie Basak pointed out that in the stable release exception [1] for
gce-compute-image-packages the wording does not explicitly lift the
requirement for the the package to reach the minimal age (7 days)
before it can migrate from -proposed to the release.

In practice requiring 7 days to be spent in -proposed for this source
package is not particularly useful since the binary packages are
maintained only for Google's infrastructure and both Google and us
test them as part of the verification process. No one else is expected
to test those packages in the remaining time of default required
minimal age.

In my interpretation lifting the aging requirement was already lifted:
...
"New versions of gce-compute-image-packages can be SRU'd in to older
releases provided the following process is followed. "
...

The process after that sentence does not mention aging.

To clarify if aging is required either please explicitly lift the
requirement in the process part or declare it required.

Thanks,
Balint

-- 
Balint Reczey
Ubuntu & Debian Developer

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gce-compute-image-packages-Updates



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