[Hamara-devel] sitting tight for next couple of months as far as debian-testing is concerned.

[shirish]

Hi all,

Now that jessie is released, testing will now be open, in fact it may 
already have been opened up. Which means for the next 2 months  the 
initial toolchain will be uploaded to sid/unstable and from there 
gravitate to testing after the 10/5/2 days (depending on the severity 
written by the packager) . Now this is the vulnerable time for whoever 
downloads these packages as sometimes the packages have circular 
dependencies . At other times, you may update the package and find that 
you are unable to boot or boot into your favourite desktop manager or 
something else altogether. Such breakages do happen irregular during the 
initial couple of months,  so the best idea is to hold off for those 2 
odd months to let debian.org do its work and then jump to wherever it is 
that they are doing.

If however, you have couple of machines with the same config. then would 
be most opportune,  provided backups are taken everyday so in case if 
breakage happens, then that breakage could be reported, fixed and the 
other day's backup could be used to generate the system-state to the 
pristine last day's good image. This is also helpful for  having an 
intimate understanding of how debian builds the distribution.

While there are plenty of left-overs from the unfinished 20-30 
transitions in debian which will sustain package updates for 2-3 months, 
there is also a discussion which happen on debian-devel where the big 
picture and what big ticket transitions or changes need to happen which 
eventually become part of the  Release notes.

Which brings to the next question,  are we going to be following 
Debian's 2 yearly cycle or some other way ?

Another query, would we have different sets of people for stable and 
different people for development updates or the same people as the focus 
of both releases is different. There is also backports who is like that 
beautiful woman across the street or handsome man around the corner who 
looks good but your own fear puts you down. It's the same with backports 
because it has no support.

I would elaborate more on another email but hopefully some feedback and 
answers are elicited .

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org

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