Bug #15533
Clarify the status of Tails Installer for Jessie
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Description
Our end-user doc says we support Tails Installer on Jessie but we’re shipping a very old version in jessie-backports (which won’t change as one cannot upload to jessie-backports a package that’s not in Stretch) and none in jessie-backports-sloppy. Our installation assistant was updated for Tails Installer 5.x already (Feature #14677) so currently, even if 4.4.6+dfsg-1~bpo8+1 still works, it does not match our doc.
I think we should either stop supporting Jessie that is:
- remove the package from jessie-backports
- update the installation assistant to require Stretch or newer
- update https://tails.boum.org/contribute/release_process/tails-installer/ accordingly
… or make it so Jessie users can install Tails Installer 5.x (probably via jessie-backports-sloppy).
Almost a year after the Stretch release, I recommend the former approach.
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History
#1 Updated by intrigeri 2018-04-14 07:09:04
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Bug #14646: Core work 2018Q1 → 2018Q2: Debian added
#2 Updated by intrigeri 2018-04-14 07:09:19
- related to
Bug #14650: Package new upstream version of tails-installer -> bpo added
#3 Updated by intrigeri 2018-04-14 07:09:22
- related to
Feature #14677: Update doc to new Tails Installer without splash screen (in Debian) added
#4 Updated by intrigeri 2018-04-14 07:09:39
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Feature #15411: Core work 2018Q2 → 2018Q3: Technical writing added
#5 Updated by intrigeri 2018-04-14 07:10:14
sajolida and u, I guess you should talk to each other, decide something and then each implement your part of the decision :)
#6 Updated by intrigeri 2018-04-14 07:11:22
- related to
Bug #12152: Update tails-installer release process added
#7 Updated by sajolida 2018-04-16 11:09:09
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Feature #15392: Core work 2018Q2 → 2018Q3: User experience added
#8 Updated by Anonymous 2018-04-16 11:45:03
I think we should indeed stop supporting Jessie that is:
- remove the package from jessie-backports [u]
- update the installation assistant to require Stretch or newer [sajolida]
- update https://tails.boum.org/contribute/release_process/tails-installer/ accordingly [sajolida]
#9 Updated by sajolida 2018-04-17 14:40:30
- Assignee deleted (
sajolida) - QA Check set to Ready for QA
- Feature Branch set to feature/15533-tails-installer-not-in-jessie
I have a branch for the documentation.
Reassigning to Ulrike for the Debian part.
> update https://tails.boum.org/contribute/release_process/tails-installer/ accordingly [sajolida]
I prefer leaving that to Ulrike!
#10 Updated by sajolida 2018-04-19 17:55:34
- Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress
Applied in changeset commit:192e6090370119b6848caf2573b20d0a57192a34.
#11 Updated by Anonymous 2018-04-24 09:46:54
sajolida wrote:
> I have a branch for the documentation.
The branch looks good. I’ve merged recent master into it and pushed.
#12 Updated by Anonymous 2018-04-24 09:49:58
sajolida wrote:
> > update https://tails.boum.org/contribute/release_process/tails-installer/ accordingly [sajolida]
>
> I prefer leaving that to Ulrike!
Right, I don’t know why I thought you should do that, that was a mistake..
Done in 7bc09dd14d in “your” branch.
#13 Updated by Anonymous 2018-04-24 10:01:59
Requested removal of the package from jessie-backports by following the procedure on https://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals#Removals_from_backports
#14 Updated by Anonymous 2018-04-24 13:05:11
As soon as I receive news about the removal, we can merge this.
#15 Updated by Anonymous 2018-05-05 14:10:01
No news yet.
#16 Updated by intrigeri 2018-05-07 12:43:46
I think we should merge this branch right now (I see no reason to wait for the removal from jessie-backports). I’ve had a look and it seems good to me!
#17 Updated by Anonymous 2018-05-08 13:46:41
Agreed, this was maybe not necessary to wait. Nevertheless, the package has been removed today and I finally found out why I was not able to upload to backports - there was a permission problem I was not aware of. I am not able to upload there - and have uploaded 5.0.6 to stretch-backports - because this version is already in Debian testing. I will upload 5.0.7 at a later point in time.
#18 Updated by Anonymous 2018-05-08 13:48:30
Merging the documentation branch into master and pushing.
#19 Updated by Anonymous 2018-05-08 13:57:26
tails-installer is now in stretch-backports :)
#20 Updated by Anonymous 2018-05-08 13:58:02
- Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
- QA Check deleted (
Ready for QA)