Bug #15533

Clarify the status of Tails Installer for Jessie

Added by intrigeri 2018-04-14 07:08:52 . Updated 2018-05-08 14:21:58 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Installation
Target version:
Start date:
2018-04-14
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Feature Branch:
feature/15533-tails-installer-not-in-jessie
Type of work:
End-user documentation
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
Installation Assistant
Deliverable for:

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:

… 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.


Subtasks


Related issues

Related to Tails - Bug #14650: Package new upstream version of tails-installer -> bpo Resolved 2017-09-13
Related to Tails - Feature #14677: Update doc to new Tails Installer without splash screen (in Debian) Resolved 2017-09-17
Related to Tails - Bug #12152: Update tails-installer release process Resolved 2017-01-17
Blocks Tails - Bug #14646: Core work 2018Q1 → 2018Q2: Debian Resolved 2018-01-17
Blocks Tails - Feature #15411: Core work 2018Q2 → 2018Q3: Technical writing Resolved 2018-03-14
Blocks Tails - Feature #15392: Core work 2018Q2 → 2018Q3: User experience Resolved 2018-03-09

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2018-04-14 07:09:04

  • blocks 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

  • blocks 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

  • blocks 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:

#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)

#21 Updated by intrigeri 2018-05-08 14:21:58

  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

Woohoo!