Hi Blair, On 11-04-2025 17:14, Blair Noctis wrote:
So:
If all packages affected are handled ("self-contained"),
This is indeed good.
the blast radius is rather small,
In transition context, we generally consider "small" when numbers are in the low single digit. Otherwise we'd want to be involved/informed. That always true, but more so during the transition freeze of course. By the way, our definition of transition is broader than the classical C-library transition, and covers changes to packages that require changes to or rebuilds of other packages.
and I have the go from all affected maintainers,
That's obviously also good.
is it still considered large/disruptive?
It's at least against the spirit of the freeze, see our definition of transition above.
Ramacher said it depends on the size of debdiffs, so here they are: https://people.debian.org/~ncts/rust-prost-0.13-affected-debdiffs/ (Cargo.lock stripped as it's basically dead weight)
If you want to request an exception, please file a bug and attach debdiffs to the report. That way they are stored in the BTS. Having said that, the size of those debdiffs don't look good. That's not really reviewable. So you better have a good explanation of why the new version is so much better than the current version in trixie. Otherwise consider this request as just too late.
Paul
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