Can maintainers set a group of packages as required to be migrated at the
same time for consistency?

KDE Plasma in particular is versioning a bunch of related packages as a
group (versions 5.27.8, 5.27.9, etc.).

But I noticed that they migrate from unstable to testing in chunks, some earlier some later due to various hiccups for some of them.

That can create an inconsistent mix for users of testing who upgrade that without noticing.

Making such packages migrate as an interdependent group (if it's even
possible) could prevent such kind of situations.

Regards,

Shmerl.

<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-_3xX726aBn29LDbsDtzr_6E gmail-_1Ap4F5maDtT1E1YuCiaO0r gmail-D3IL3FD0RFy_mkKLPwL4" style="max-width:800px"><div class="gmail-_292iotee39Lmt0MkQZ2hPV gmail-RichTextJSON-root"><p class="gmail-_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">Can
maintainers set a group of packages as required to be migrated at the same time for consistency?</p><p class="gmail-_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM"></p><p class="gmail-_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">KDE Plasma in particular is versioning a bunch of related
packages as a group (versions 5.27.8, 5.27.9, etc.).</p><p class="gmail-_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM"></p><p class="gmail-_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">But I noticed that
they migrate from unstable to testing in chunks, some earlier some later
due to various hiccups for some of them.</p><p class="gmail-_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">That can create an
inconsistent mix for users of testing who upgrade that without noticing.</p><p class="gmail-_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">Making such packages migrate as an interdependent group (if it&#39;s even possible) could prevent such kind of situations.</p><p class="
gmail-_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">Regards,<br></p><p class="gmail-_1qeIAgB0cPwnLhDF9XSiJM">Shmerl.<br></p></div></div></div>

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On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 02:53:02AM -0400, Shmerl wrote:

Can maintainers set a group of packages as required to be migrated at the same time for consistency?

Yes, by setting versioned dependencies.

KDE Plasma in particular is versioning a bunch of related packages as a
group (versions 5.27.8, 5.27.9, etc.).

But I noticed that they migrate from unstable to testing in chunks, some earlier some later due to various hiccups for some of them.

That can create an inconsistent mix for users of testing who upgrade that without noticing.

If this causes incompatible package sets, versioned deps should be added.
But I guess "an inconsistent mix" may mean something else?

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On Thursday, November 2, 2023 11:01:52 AM MST Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:

Is there a reason it should be done, as you say later it's purely about version numbers?

Yes. There are odd bugs that get introduces into testing by these version mismatches.

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