I used some of Debcamp and Debconf time this year to discuss the Debian Installer release process with some people and after talking with many people it seems we agreed on the following changes on Debian Installer release process and it would be interesting to receive feedback on those to see if anyone see a problem we didn't notice yet.
* Official uploads to be built against unstable Currently when we do a source upload of debian-installer it gather all build-depends on /unstable/ but the udebs from /testing/. We want to get it change and all udebs be fetched from unstable so we will migrate it all to testing when ready and not before building as done currently. This is going to make easier to Debian Installer and Debian Release teams to coordinate the migration of packages to testing. Philipp will send a mail regarding this with more details later. * Linux kernel udebs to be built from linux source package We won't get rid of kernel-wedge instead linux source package will use it during the build process to produce all the kernel udebs from it. Ben will send a mail about this later with a more detailed description. * Debian Installer daily builds to be done from source uploads The daily builds will use the archive source for building so every time we do a change in unstable in a module that is included in initrd it will trigger a binNMU in all architectures replicating what we have in daily builds. When source changes in debian-installer source package are done, a new source upload will be required. * Debian Installer experimental builds With Linux kernel udebs built from linux source we have the possibility to get the installer built against the development kernel that will be available on experimental and this is quite important to us to be able to test all this before it is available in unstable to avoid bad surprises for us and users. This will also be a handy tool for us to play with not well tested or finished stuff without breaking installer to end users. For now, I think we will need to use an infra-structure similar of what we have today for daily builds for those. * Use of britney to handle package and installer migration This is the end of the process and some details are yet unknown how this is going to happen however but our goal is to make it happen since it will alleviate a lot the amount of work to make Debian Installer release to happen. It is important to notice that it is not a single-man effort but a coordinate and shared effort of Debian Kernel, Debian Release and Debian Installer teams to get all this done. Those changes are not going to happen at once but in a progressive process and at the end this is going to make the installer release process easier to understand and handle. Please share your ideas regarding those proposed changes so we can start looking on the required changes to accomplish all this. Thanks in advance, Regards, -- Otavio Salvador ota...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cap9odko9_21zxolagenchnte8+xc1p4xr6vxnavugqcwekb...@mail.gmail.com
