Hi, On 25/07/2019 22:03, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hello Emilio and anybody else who might at some point upload MariaDB > to jessie-security or stretch-security! > > Please use as the starting point the latest version in the MariaDB > team Salsa repos > - mariadb-10.0 branch 'jessie' > - mariadb-10.1 branch 'stretch' (from 2020 onwards LTS) > > I have prepared there Gitlab-CI automation that does not affect the > package itself in any way, but does help quite a bit in ensuring that > whatever you upload is well tested and unlikely to cause regressions. > > Do not just checkout the latest version in Jessie or Stretch, but work > using the repository instead. Also, please push to the branch when you > are done. I am happy to include LTS maintainers in the mariadb-team so > you can use the official repository. (Emilio is already there.) > > Repo and example of pipeline: > - https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.0/pipelines > - https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.1/pipelines > > Slides on my talk on MariaDB packaging and Salsa-CI/Gitlab-CI use in > case you are interested in the longer story: > https://www.slideshare.net/ottokekalainen/how-mariadb-packaging-uses-salsaci-to-ensure-smooth-upgrades-and-avoid-regressions > > > - Otto > > PS. I've done this all assuming the security uploads in this case do > allow changes to the debian/gitlab-ci.yml file since it does not cause > functional changes to the package itself and is perfectly safe.
Thanks for improving security by providing easier testing :) I referenced your e-mail at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/TestSuites Cheers! Sylvain
