Hi folks, I think Debian Policy 4.0.0.0 is ready for release. Here's my proposed plan. Since this is a little bit of an unusual approach, partly because we're in the middle of a release freeze, I wanted to give people a chance to object first.
This is a huge change, including the conversion to DocBook, and is going to invalidate any outstanding proposed patches. It's probably also going to cause some issues for debian-www and possibly Lintian, since there are probably some assumptions about the internal formats of the generated files (although it should be hopefully fairly close). We're also in a release freeze, so people probably shouldn't be updating all of their packages to the next Standards-Version right now. My goal is to set things up so that we'll have a nice, fresh Policy document going into the buster development cycle. Therefore, I plan to upload debian-policy 4.0.0.0 to experimental rather than unstable. I'll still announce it on debian-devel-announce, but with the above caveats. This will given the www team a chance to sort out any issues with publishing it on the web site, and will give people a chance to find anything that broke as part of the big conversion. We can iterate with minor versions in experimental, and then aim for an unstable upload once things are looking reasonably solid. (Since this is a documentation-only package and one where it doesn't really matter which version releases with stretch, I'm not worrying too much about avoiding uploads to unstable during the release freeze.) If anyone has any objections, please mention them before Wednesday, May 3rd. My plan is to do the upload probably some time that evening, although it's always possible that I'll run out of time and not get to it until next weekend. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
