> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 02:15:59AM -0800, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > Hi people,
> >
> > I'd like to suggest that we start setting NotAutomatic: yes for the
> > proposed pocket with hirsute+1, such that things like SRU verification
> > will be easier, and all those people who enable proposed in sources.list
> > for I don't know what reasons don't get their systems destroyed as much.
> >
> > This would obviously require some changes to pin the repo back up on the
> > builders, but I think it would be useful overall.
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> I think the Launchpad support is still missing, although we started on
> this several years ago. That will need to be picked up and finished off:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1016776
>
> That bug report talks about doing it pre-release (for devel only) but I
> think I'm now in favour of doing it always, and the proposed
> implementation in there would allow that. For devel, the main reason is
> that I frequently come across users who have misunderstood what proposed
> is for and manually enabled it themsleves, resulting in various degrees
> of brokenness on their systems and bug reports that take developers'
> time to triage and eventually close. These are not (always) people who
> have updated from a previous release, where we could have had tools
> disable -proposed for them, but also people who have explicitly turned
> it on after installing a daily out of an attempt to help test the
> upcoming release.
Just as a reminder ubuntu-release-upgrader does disable -proposed during
the upgrade to a development release of Ubuntu.
Cheers,
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Brian Murray
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