salt 0.10.1 in Debian stable

[Ulrich Dangel]

Hi,
the current salt version in Wheezy (the upcoming stable version) is
currently 0.10.1 and we can't get any later version for the upcoming
stable version in.

The question is if we should keep salt 0.10.1 in Debian Wheezy for the
next 2+ years or just rely on backports.

What do you think?

cheers,
Ulrich
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[martin f krafft]

also sprach Ulrich Dangel <m...@spamt.net> [2012.11.12.1552 +0100]:

> The question is if we should keep salt 0.10.1 in Debian Wheezy for the
> next 2+ years or just rely on backports.

I'd say to rely on backports. Salt is moving too fast these days
that we would want to suggest to anyone that 0.10.1 is "stable" or
ready for prime-time.

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[Sean Channel]

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Hi Ulrich!

Thank you for asking!

I've been looking at what you've done for the 0.10.1 package and
trying to bring our latest work into closer alignment with that.
Presently I'm thinking about setting up a branch for a pure-debian
package that you might find acceptable, or perhaps you may have a
repository where you keep package data that we may collaborate on.

What can we do to get a newer version of Salt into circulation? I'm
not sure about how backports work, but it's probably better than
sticking with an old version for two more years.

_S

On 11/12/2012 06:52 AM, Ulrich Dangel wrote:
> Hi, the current salt version in Wheezy (the upcoming stable
> version) is currently 0.10.1 and we can't get any later version for
> the upcoming stable version in.
>
> The question is if we should keep salt 0.10.1 in Debian Wheezy for
> the next 2+ years or just rely on backports.
>
> What do you think?
>
> cheers, Ulrich
>

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[Ulrich Dangel]

* Sean Channel wrote [12.11.12 16:57]:

> I've been looking at what you've done for the 0.10.1 package and
> trying to bring our latest work into closer alignment with that.
> Presently I'm thinking about setting up a branch for a pure-debian
> package that you might find acceptable, or perhaps you may have a
> repository where you keep package data that we may collaborate on.

There is https://github.com/mika/salt-deb, all the important things are
in the debian branch.

> What can we do to get a newer version of Salt into circulation?

Through official Debian channels? Currently nothing.

> I'm not sure about how backports work, but it's probably better than
> sticking with an old version for two more years.

As soon as stable is released we can update backports.

The policy for the backports repository is that user should be able to
do a clean upgrade from stable + backports to newstable. This means only
versions in testing get acceppted into backports. As testing is
currently frozen we can't update the package in backports.

[Thomas S Hatch]

I think that we should not present 0.10.1 as stable, and rely on backports. I think that people installing 0.10.1 will only give us headaches, and there are security issues which cannot be easily backported

[Ulrich Dangel]

* Thomas S Hatch wrote [12.11.12 18:11]:

> I think that we should not present 0.10.1 as stable, and rely on backports.
> I think that people installing 0.10.1 will only give us headaches, and
> there are security issues which cannot be easily backported

I requested the removal of salt 0.10.1 from wheezy.

Ulrich