Promoting to main on older releases some packages only on the release pocket?

[Matthias Klose]

On 13.09.24 12:19, Didier Roche wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have a request from the foundation team that got a MIR approved, 
> including on noble and jammy to promote retry (https:// 
> bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/retry/+bug/2076381). However, retry is 
> not available in -updates, but only on the release pocket, which is thus 
> read only on release day if I am correct.
> 
> So, we can’t promote that version. I do not remember of previous case I 
> had to handle with this without it being in updates. My advice would be 
> to issue a SRU as a no-change rebuild and then, promote that one once it 
> reaches -updates.
> 
> Is it the best course of actions or do you have any other suggestions?

the no-change SRU is the only option afaik.

Matthias