Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Wookey wrote: >> +++ martin f krafft [2013-01-25 16:06 +1300]: >> > also sprach David Kalnischkies [2013.01.25.0020 >> > +1300]: >> > > You can find much of the same discussion in the bugreport requesting

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-25 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 11:19:00 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Now, complete documentation of the Release files, where the tags you can use > in repositories to get such nice functionality like ButAutomaticUpdates... > Does anyone know where such a thing might dwell? I don't think ther

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Wookey wrote: > +++ martin f krafft [2013-01-25 16:06 +1300]: > > also sprach David Kalnischkies [2013.01.25.0020 > > +1300]: > > > You can find much of the same discussion in the bugreport requesting > > > implementation of this feature in APT: #596097 > > > > Thanks for th

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-25 Thread Wookey
+++ martin f krafft [2013-01-25 16:06 +1300]: > also sprach David Kalnischkies [2013.01.25.0020 > +1300]: > > You can find much of the same discussion in the bugreport requesting > > implementation of this feature in APT: #596097 > > Thanks for the pointer! I missed this discussion un^Wfortunate

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
martin f krafft schrieb am Friday, den 25. January 2013: > also sprach Alexander Wirt [2013.01.25.2001 +1300]: > > > Setting ButAutomaticUpdates certainly doesn't have enough pros to > > > warrant this change, just like that. The way it was before does have > > > a huge pro though: it's the way i

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alexander Wirt [2013.01.25.2001 +1300]: > > Setting ButAutomaticUpdates certainly doesn't have enough pros to > > warrant this change, just like that. The way it was before does have > > a huge pro though: it's the way it's been for years. You know, never > > change a winning team… > t

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
martin f krafft schrieb am Thursday, den 24. January 2013: > also sprach Joerg Jaspert [2013.01.24.2017 +1300]: > > > And say that a year later 2.3 comes out and it's the bee's knees > > > because it fully replaces 1.1 except that the configuration cannot > > > be automatically migrated, and all

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
martin f krafft schrieb am Thursday, den 24. January 2013: > Hey folks, > > For a while now, the backports archive sets "ButAutomaticUpdates: > yes" in its Release file, causing packages in the archive to be > pinned with priority 100, rather than 1 (which was previously the > case). > > The eff

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach David Kalnischkies [2013.01.25.0020 +1300]: > You can find much of the same discussion in the bugreport requesting > implementation of this feature in APT: #596097 Thanks for the pointer! I missed this discussion un^Wfortunately. Anyway, it seems that most people are in favour of this

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-24 Thread Simon McVittie
On 24/01/13 07:48, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Joerg Jaspert [2013.01.24.2017 > +1300]: >>> And say that a year later 2.3 comes out and it's the bee's >>> knees because it fully replaces 1.1 except that the >>> configuration cannot be automatically migrated, and all the >>> power users on

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-24 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:39 AM, martin f krafft wrote: > I think we ought to revert this change and turn off > ButAutomaticUpgrades for the backports archive (and update > apt_preferences(5)). You can find much of the same discussion in the bugreport requesting implementation of this feature in

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joerg Jaspert [2013.01.24.2017 +1300]: > > And say that a year later 2.3 comes out and it's the bee's knees > > because it fully replaces 1.1 except that the configuration cannot > > be automatically migrated, and all the power users on #debian-devel > > persuade you to backport it, wh

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
martin f krafft writes: > also sprach Russ Allbery [2013.01.24.1856 +1300]: >> I always understood that I had a responsibility as a backporter to >> release security fixes as necessary, and if I wasn't going to do that, >> I shouldn't upload the backport in the first place. I handle backport >>

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-23 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13101 March 1977, martin f. krafft wrote: >> I always understood that I had a responsibility as a backporter to release >> security fixes as necessary, and if I wasn't going to do that, I shouldn't >> upload the backport in the first place. I handle backport security fixes >> exactly the way t

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Russ Allbery [2013.01.24.1856 +1300]: > I always understood that I had a responsibility as a backporter to release > security fixes as necessary, and if I wasn't going to do that, I shouldn't > upload the backport in the first place. I handle backport security fixes > exactly the way

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-23 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:39 AM, martin f krafft wrote: > Hey folks, > > For a while now, the backports archive sets "ButAutomaticUpdates: > yes" in its Release file, causing packages in the archive to be > pinned with priority 100, rather than 1 (which was previously the > case). > > The effect o

Re: Backports upgrade policy (ButAutomaticUpdates:yes)

2013-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
martin f krafft writes: > While this might seem like a good idea at first — like when > a security fix reaches the backports archive Indeed. > I am sure we all agree that the > deny-all-but-what-is-explicitly-allowed policy is the better one. So > why did we make the switch? Because of securit