Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock
Please pre-approve the package qutebrowser/2.0.0-1. [ Reason ] A major upstream release (2.0.0) of qutebrowser is going to be released soon (currently aimed at early next week, i.e. around 26th of January 2021). While it certainly counts as a "large change", it is a leaf package and risk is believed to be small (see below). [ Impact ] Users on Debian Stable will continue to use the previous release series (1.14.x) for the next couple of years. Since there are some changes around the names of commands/settings, this introduces an undesirable gap between users on Debian Stable and users on other distributions (many of qutebrowser's users are on rolling-release distributions). This gap would make it more difficult both for upstream and the affected users to give/take support, share configuration files, etc. [ Tests ] qutebrowser has a big automated testsuite with over 9000 (sic) tests. Note that many of those result from parametrization (running the same test with different sets of inputs), but still this reduces the potential for regressions. Upstream also uses other measures to reduce defects where appropriate, such as type annotations. A part of its users is using it directly from its git repository, so that any remaining issues with changes usually get reported and fixed quickly. [ Risks ] qutebrowser is a leaf package, so no coordination with other package(r)s is required. It is also a desktop application - while those certainly shouldn't be held to lower standards, the impact (or need for additional "preparation time" for users) might be smaller compared to e.g. a server application. There are many changes upstream: $ git diff --stat v1.14.1...master 540 files changed, 12654 insertions(+), 10182 deletions(-) Excluding tests/scripts/...: $ git diff --stat v1.14.1...master -- qutebrowser/ 199 files changed, 5189 insertions(+), 5794 deletions(-) However, the bulk of those changes are a result of relatively boring changes upstream, such as dropping support for old Python/Qt versions. The upstream changelog is probably a better indication: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/blob/master/doc/changelog.asciidoc#v200-unreleased [ Checklist ] (N/A because this is a pre-approval) [ Other info ] The upstream maintainer is on Cc for this bug and is willing to work with the package maintainers for this, where needed. If (despite all measures) regressions would be introduced, a potential patch release would happen as soon as possible. Patch releases are done from a dedicated v2.0.x maintenance branch, keeping care to keep changes as small as possible and without any non-bugfix changes. The release also introduces a new optional dependency on the Python "adblock" module for better ad blocking. It is currently not packaged for Debian and doing so is outside of the scope of this request. If the dependency is unavailable, qutebrowser will fall back on the same hosts-based adblocking it used before this release. So please pre-approve qutebrowser/2.0.0-1. For Debian's qutebrowser package, the qutebrowser package maintainers and upstream. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
