Re: [Tails-dev] Release versioning

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Author: sajolida
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Release versioning
intrigeri:
> apparently you are willing to understand better how this works
> (otherwise you would not have bothered writing the message I'm
> replying to), so here we go:
>
> sajolida wrote (01 Dec 2015 12:44:46 GMT) :
>> I don't know what this UDF is used for as 1.9 will never exist, but
>> maybe we should rename it into
>> upgrade/v1/Tails/2.0/i386/alpha/upgrades.yml
>
> Until we merge feature/jessie into devel, all builds from the devel
> branch believe that next major release is 1.9, and then running the
> test suite on ISOs built from devel still need that UDF.
>
> Note in passing: we cannot simply *rename* a UDF this way: its content
> matters more than the URL, and is authenticated.
>
>> or create another one for 2.0.
>
> We always need a UDF for release N+1 immediately after N has been
> released (in this case, N=1.8 and N+1=2.0), for the reason
> I explained above.
>
> The good news is that our release process guarantees this invariant,
> and I don't think the current situation adds any specific requirement
> of its own.
>
> => I still don't think there's anything to update :)


Cool, thanks for all the info. I was also thinking this must be for the
test suite or something not user-visible...