SRUs solely for dep8 updates

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:04:11AM +0000, Robie Basak wrote:
> > > I've always been reluctant to accept SRUs for things that are not user
> > > impacting.

> > > For consistency, please could we decide a policy on this?

> > To understand, are you looking for consistency because you think the policy
> > should be to reject autopkgtest-only fixes and you don't want uploaders to
> > shop their upload around to multiple SRU team members to get the answer they
> > want?  Or is it that you think it's unfair to uploaders and a waste of their
> > time to have done work that might then be rejected?  Or some other reason?

> I think consistency saves wasting everyone's time, so all of the above.
> Uploaders would know what to expect and SRU team mebmers won't duplicate
> review time. It would a waste for me to reject or defer an SRU and for
> another SRU team member to later accept it, and frustrating for
> uploaders to be playing a lottery like that.

I agree that this would be wasteful.  I'm not sure it comes up often enough
that we would be saving energy by attempting to (agree on and) adopt a hard
policy, however.

My own view is that for the specific narrow case of a package whose
autopkgtests have regressed post-release, and there are dependencies of that
package being SRUed, and there is an Ubuntu developer who cares enough about
the regressed package to prepare an upload a fix, it is reasonable to accept
an SRU for this.

I'm interested to hear the opinion of other members of the SRU team as well.

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