Hi Lee,
On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 11:06:23PM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 03:05:00PM +0200, Lee Garrett wrote:
> > I'm requesting to bump the version of the ansible package
> > ("ansible-community
> > collection") to the last minor semantic version of the v7 series in
> > bookworm.
> > This version has previously spent ~10 months in testing/unstable, so I'm
> > fairly
> > confident that any potential regressions would have been caught (so far
> > none).
>
> If upstream uses semver then 7.3 -> 7.7 implies new features. Along with a
> 10MiB diff this is usually a good indicator that it's inappropriate for
> stable.
>
> The trouble with a package's time spent in sid as an indicator of
> reliability isn't so much the package itself, but all the differences
> around it like library versions. We've been bitten by that assumption
> before now.
>
> Are there known issues for users which you can target with fixes rather
> than a wholesale backport?
>
> Otherwise maybe bookworm-backports is a better place for this, so users can
> choose to take slightly more risk for features, or stick with the released
> version and put up with known quantity bugs.
Did you saw Jonathan's comments above?
Regards,
Salvatore
