Re: Release 6.1

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le jeudi 30 janvier 2020 à 13:17 +0000, Carnë Draug a écrit :
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 at 13:08, Sébastien Villemot <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Le jeudi 30 janvier 2020 à 12:55 +0100, Markus Mützel a écrit :
> > > Am 28. Januar 2020 um 17:36 Uhr schrieb "Rik":
> > > > I'm not clear on the exact 5.2 release date but it seems like it
> > > > will be
> > > > 1/31 or 2/1.  After that, someone can merge default on to stable
> > > > and we can
> > > > start the 6.1 cycle.  It seems like a worthy goal to finish up
> > > > before the
> > > > Feb. 27th and the big Ubuntu freeze.
> > > 
> > > I agree, it would be nice to get Octave 6.1 into the Ubuntu LTS.
> > > But I'm not sure if the remaining 4 weeks are enough to get that
> > > ready for their freeze.
> > > I remember there was a lot of activity after default was merged to
> > > stable for the 5.1 release (ASAN, PVC Analyzer, ...). And there are
> > > still a few open bugs that haven't been worked on yet.
> > 
> > It won’t be easy to have Octave 6.1 in Ubuntu LTS 20.04.
> > 
> > Ubuntu LTS normally takes its packages from Debian testing. For sure,
> > it’s already too late to have Octave 6.1 in Debian testing by that date
> > (we have to manage a so-called “transition” on the Debian side, and
> > this typically takes several weeks, sometimes even months).
> 
> I thought the same but recently checked this and apparently it's no
> longer true.  Ubuntu's wiki DebianImportFreeze [1] states:
> 
>     Imports from Debian are from the unstable branch. (A historic
>     note, for some LTS release 12.04 and lower were done from testing,
>     but since the introduction of ProposedMigration syncs happen from
>     unstable all the time.)

Thanks for pointing this, I was not aware of that change.

However, even uploading to Debian unstable cannot happen immediately
after the release, because we would first have: upload Octave 6.1 to
experimental, then verify that all Octave Forge packages still compile
work, patch those that don’t, and finally ask the permission from the
Release Team to upload to unstable. This whole process takes several
weeks, at least.

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