Re: [PATCH] distro/poky: Add Debian 7.5 and 7.6 version as validated

[Olof Johansson <olof.johansson@axis.com>]

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