Thursday 11 July 2013

Re: Xorg was removed.. without an alternative

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:54:38AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:31:03 AM Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> > On 11 July 2013 08:43, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@kitterman.com> wrote:
> > […]
> > It looks like the two different uses of -proposed should be separated, no?
> > So a $devel release would have an always empty $devel-proposed and all that
> > is currently pushed there would go to $devel-autobuilder-only-proposed or
> > something and a released verison would continue as-is.
>
> In theory, sure. In practice, it would take a lot of work to do that for very
> minimal gain.

Quite a while ago I started working to make it possible to enable
NotAutomatic (as for -backports) for the proposed pocket.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1016776

Clearly, despite my comment saying that I'd finish implementing this, I
never did. There would be some other work needed too before it could be
enabled, like getting buildds to ignore the flag. It still seems to me
that this is the right thing to do. If anyone wants to pick it up and
push it over the line then please do.

Cheers,

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