On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 12:25 PM Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> wrote: > > Quoting Pirate Praveen (2020-02-25 10:59:11) > > On 2020, ഫെബ്രുവരി 25 10:59:35 AM IST, Xavier <y...@debian.org> wrote: > > >I think we should publish babel7 in a separate node-babel7: some > > >package require old babel 6 for build. OK? > > > > > > > It will need maintaining two versions of babel which we should try to avoid. > > > > We can have babel 7 in experimental and try to update all packages > > currently using babel 6 to build with babel 7. Basically how we do > > every other major version update. At the least we should evaluate how > > many packages are affected and compare the effort required for both > > approaches. > > I haven't looked at the numbers but just blindly assume that we are > talking about hundreds of packages needing migration here, each > requiring a "real" package upload (binNMUs are not supported for > arch-all packages) and often require patches or changes to patches > (unlike C library bumps only exceptionally needing changes to code). > > I agree that we should not _maintain_ more than a single release of > babel: We should have Debian _release_ with two major versions of babel > concurrently! > > What worries me is that _all_ users of babel must switch _together_ - I > fear that it is too complicates, because of the likelihood of many > unrelated bugs appearing together. > > Please package babel7 as a package independent from babel6, and have > both in unstable concurrently, but also make sure to file a big fat RC > bug against babel7 to ensure that we don't want to maintain it in a > release. > > Then, when enough packages have switched to support babel7, we can move > that RC bugreport to be tied to babel6 instead, so that we instead push > out any packages failing to align with the new World order of babel7. > > I find that a much nice development approach than "let's have the whole > World of babel7 perfected in experimental, and then BOOM! switch over to > unstable - hoping for zero collateral damage in that revolutionary > move".
I like this plan, thanks Bastien > > > - Jonas > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private-- > Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list > Pkg-javascript-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel -- Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list Pkg-javascript-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel
