On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 18:42 +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi Adam, > On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 02:27:27PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: [...] > > If so then we need to consider how the transition works in the short > > term. For example, the final point release of oldstable occurs after > > security support ceases, so that we can fold in as many of the remaining > > packages from the security archive as possible, including those that > > failed to build on some architectures originally - it would be confusing > > if we ended up pulling in any packages that were actually from > > wheezy-lts, or even having those appear in oldstable-new. > > What would that involve? A flag day when the usual uploads to s.d.o for > wheezy stop and the point release is made? Or can we just stop > forwarding packages to oldstable-new at that day and that point release > can happen at a later date while the LTS uploads to s.d.o already start?
I was assuming the latter. Some input from ftp-master and the Security Team r.e. feasibility would be helpful there. Regards, Adam
