Update the fwupd exception documentation to match the reality today #347
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* Drop the handling for old releases that confused things * Make it explicit that major versions aren't covered
superm1
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basak,
enr0n,
julian-klode,
panlinux and
tjaalton
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| Due to this, upstream highly recommends distros to not backport |
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NAK. Upstream recommendations do not form SRU policy, and in this case contradicts SRU policy. Please do not emphasize this more. If anything, this should be removed because it implies that minimal patches to fix specific bugs are to be discouraged, contrary to Ubuntu SRU policy.
| New versions of fwupd and fwupd-efi can both be SRU'ed into older | ||
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| **fwupdate**: tarball releases only. No backported individual patches. |
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No backported individual patches.
That may be your preference, but it's not the position of the Ubuntu SRU team. Please remove this. I appreciate it was there before; I don't know how that slipped in.
| **fwupd-efi**: tarball releases only. No backported individual patches. | ||
| If a tarball release isn't available, make upstream release one. | ||
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| **fwupd**: fwupd releases in the 1.0.x series. |
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Please make it explicit that these are upstream microreleases only.
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| Updating to a new major series is not an unsurmountable ask for extreme | ||
| circumstances, but this policy does not explicitly allow it and it needs | ||
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"not explicitly allow it"? No thank you, since this implies that it might be being permitted by implication. If anything, this should say "this policy addresses microreleases only".
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Update the fwupd exception documentation to match the reality today
Related issue
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fwupd/+bug/2131001
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