On 18 Apr 2024 09:55 +0200, from er...@rail.eu.org (Erwan David): >> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libreoffice > > What scares me is seeing part of 18 ongoing transition, and 4 "coming soon > transitions" with "please do not upload if it is not related to the > transition".
Why does that scare you? Those entries are related to testing; that is, it seems to me, Trixie. We're over a year away from a likely release of Trixie, or correspondingly half way in between the Bookworm and Trixie releases. (Note: I have no special knowledge of the release cycle planning for Trixie. This is based on historical evidence and an assumption that something approximating the release cycle for the last several releases will apply also to Trixie, which would put a Trixie release in mid-2025.) Large-scale changes in Testing and Unstable _especially_ at this point in the release cycle are to be expected. Sometimes those changes will by necessity block other changes until everything is sorted out in terms of versions, dependencies and packaging. If you want stability, run Stable (and maybe Backports). If you're running Testing or Unstable (let alone with Experimental on top of that), then you should _expect_ there to be occasional breakage or large-scale changes that can block upgrades until it is all sorted out by the package maintainers, and which may sometimes require local intervention as well. To be fair, this did apparently cause some side effects of bugs being closed incorrectly; but my understanding from the sidelines of this thread is that that was corrected quickly once brought to attention. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
