Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.debian.user > #210405

Re: Debian Releases

Show all headers | View raw

[Multipart message — attachments visible in raw view] - view raw

On Vi, 17 mai 19, 17:05:40, Francisco M Neto wrote:
> As the first in a series of (maybe 2) posts about Debian's release cycle, I'vecreated the following post. 
> 
> I would love to receive any feedback on it.
> 
> http://fmneto.com.br/en/en/archives/2019/tracking-busters-release/

Disclaimer: below is based on lurking around Debian (including Developer 
lists) for the past 10 years or so. Feel free to copy-paste whatever you 
need without attribution.

The Release Team is choosing the freeze date after consulting with 
package maintainers. Whenever possible it is chosen to account for the 
different release schedules of the major upstream projects (Linux, 
glibc, etc.).

Considering the amount of software included in Debian this is quite 
challenging. An upstream project may or may not have a (predictable) 
release cycle, stable / long term support / bugfixes only branch, etc. 
which makes it even more difficult.

Depending on the complexity of upstream projects it may take significant 
time to package a new (major) release (think Gnome, KDE, etc.).

Projects on which other software depends (libraries, programming 
languages, etc.) will trigger transitions, which require a rebuild of 
all depending packages at a minimum, but sometimes even a complete 
rewrite of other software (e.g. Python 2 -> 3).

Hope this helps,
Andrei
-- 
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

Back to linux.debian.user | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Debian Releases Francisco M Neto <fmneto@fmneto.com.br> - 2019-05-17 22:10 +0200
  Re: Debian Releases Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-05-17 22:30 +0200
    Re: Debian Releases Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-05-17 22:40 +0200
      Re: Debian Releases Francisco M Neto <fmneto@fmneto.com.br> - 2019-05-17 23:00 +0200
        Re: Debian Releases Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2019-05-18 08:40 +0200
          Re: Debian Releases Francisco M Neto <fmneto@fmneto.com.br> - 2019-05-21 04:50 +0200
            Re: Debian Releases Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-05-21 17:10 +0200
              Re: Debian Releases Francisco M Neto <fmneto@fmneto.com.br> - 2019-05-21 18:00 +0200
  Re: Debian Releases andreimpopescu@gmail.com - 2019-06-26 09:00 +0200

csiph-web