Bug#1077764: Ruling request on os-release specification implementation

On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 at 03:15, Sean Whitton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> So far, although many people are sympathetic to the frustration at
> distinguishing testing from unstable in practice, I don't believe anyone
> has spoken in favour of overriding Santiago, besides Luca.

To clarify, do you mean "TC members" here instead of the more generic
"people"? Because there have been a few people speaking in favour,
with varying degrees of enthusiasm. But please note that I have not
publicized this anywhere, so only somebody who follows CTTE's bugs
would have noticed. If you are looking for more people (outside of TC
members) to chime in, I can try and make that happen, but I wasn't
aware this was a requirement.

> Also, the Release Team aren't happy with Luca's plan, so even if the TC
> were to override Santiago, it might be moot, because the TC can't
> override delegate decisions.

That is not how I read those messages though? I do not see vetoes.
There were legitimate concerns raised about QA efforts, and manual
efforts, which I think I have answered - at least there hasn't been
any comeback on those answers.

As far as I can tell, testing-proposed-updates is a fully supported
mechanism, our dev ref even mentions it:

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#t-p-u

I believe the change being talked about respects all the points and
requirements listed on that page. If there are more that are not
present there, I would ask that they be documented in the same place -
this would generally be useful, not just for this instance.