[SRU] Is there a process to have universe sources promoted to main in stable series?

[Utkarsh Gupta]

Hi Sebastien,

On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 4:01 PM Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I've recently uploaded webp-pixbuf-loader as a new package to 22.04 (SRU
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1993789). The goal is to enable webp support
> on the desktop in the LTS. The package got promoted to main in Kinetic.
> I would like to know if there is a formal process to ask for promotion
> in a stable serie?

Yes, in the same MIR bug (which would've been opened for Kinetic), add
a target to series for all the stable releases you'd like to see the
package in and let the MIR team explicitly know that.

> The intend is to have the package pulled it by our default image viewer
> (eog), so that would be a SRU to eog adding a depends or recommends on
> webp-pixbuf-loader. Can I go ahead with the SRU or should I get input
> from the MIR team first?

You should perhaps MIR it first and then have it SRU'd, followed by an
SRU for eog.

> Also for webp-pixbuf-loader the version in 22.04 is the same than the
> one that got reviewed and promoted by the MIR team, but we have another
> similar need for webkitgtk where we would like to build using
> libwpe/wpebackend-fdo but in this case the version in 22.04 is older
> than the one that got promoted in Kinetic, would that change the answer?

No, afaiu, these are independent processes. Have it MIR'd and then SRU
it to achieve this.

I hope I haven't misunderstood your intent but should you have any
questions or concerns, please let me know.


- u