Do you think it would be possible to release new versions
of grub2 on experimental? I understand that the "unstable"
version is what the name says, but even packages much less
important than grub2 make use of the experimental section
to get rid of the most serious bugs first.


Many thanx

Harri

Am Freitag, den 29.01.2010, 20:22 +0100 schrieb Harald Dunkel:

In experimental we already upload the experimental branch from upstream,
whereas sid/unstable tracks upstreams' trunk branch.
That's why they have the word `experimental' in the version number.

I'm not so sure I get the point of your report, because it looks more
like a general request then a specific request to update the version in
there.
Maybe you just missed that we already have packages in experimental?
See e.g. http://packages.debian.org/source/grub2

What I meant was that the "unstable" version is a little bit too
"experimental" for me. Recovery from a broken grub2 upgrade can be
_pretty_ difficult. This means there is a high risk for doing
grub2 upgrades, even if the code itself is very stable.

IMHO the high risk should be reduced by better testing in the
"experimental" branch, before a new version is promoted to
"unstable".


Regards

Harri

Hi Harald,

Harald Dunkel wrote:

How do you feel about this today?  Probably for your needs pinning
grub to "testing" might be a little better, but regardless, I've found
the level of scary much lower lately.

TBH, I'm not sure we'd get very much real-world testing out of
experimental, and thus it might not make a whole lot of difference if
that were done before promoting to unstable.

One thing I have started doing fairly routinely before uploading major
GRUB changes is to test them in a farm of virtual machines with various
setups.  It's not perfect and doesn't catch everything, but it's
definitely shielded users of unstable from a number of major problems.