[yocto] [PATCH] distro/poky: Add Debian 7.5 and 7.6 version as validated
Olof Johansson
olof.johansson at axis.com
Sun Aug 24 10:14:33 PDT 2014
Hi,
On 14-08-19 13:57 +0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> @@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS ?= " \
> Debian-7.2 \n \
> Debian-7.3 \n \
> Debian-7.4 \n \
> + Debian-7.5 \n \
> + Debian-7.6 \n \
> SUSE-LINUX-12.2 \n \
> openSUSE-project-12.3 \n \
> openSUSE-project-13.1 \n \
Perhaps we could discuss adding Debian-7.* (the current
Debian stable release, Wheezy, aka Debian 7.x)? I know there's
some different opinions, but I'm just gonna put in my two cents
for why that change would imho be beneficial and harmless:
- No need to update the list for each point release. Since a
Debian point release happens every other month and since these
updates would never make it to a previous poky release, the
distro version would be stale within two months of a poky release.
- Debian is one of few distros that includes this granular
version level in the lsb version. Adding a 7.* glob would
normalize it with other distros.
- Limited scope: "[The Debian point releases] usually incorporate
the security fixes released until the time of the update and
fixes for grave bugs in the current release" [1]
- Using poky should not make you feel hindered in doing important
security upgrades provided by your desktop distribution, or for
that matter make you select a different distribution in the
belief that Debian stable isn't supported by Poky.
- For organizations and projects with stricter distro needs, the
variable is easily overrideable. (This is true the other way
around as well, we have already added the glob to our internal
layer.)
Thoughts?
1: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable
(Of course, I have no objections to Otavio change.)
Regards,
--
olofjn
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