let's welcome wookey he's talking about infrastructure updates and whether we can change anything in less than two years i hope so wookie: ok, can everybody hear me? well, so, thank you for coming back after dinner not just going back to the pub i'm impressed by your enthusiasm so, yes we have this interesting problem that it's quite hard to change things quickly in Debian now we already knew that but i just want to talk a little bit about some experience i've had in last few years trying to change a particular thing which has not gone particularly well i would love to think we could have been a bit better so i really do want to talk about the general problem here of the way our infrastructure work and how if we miss a stable release that can be a real problem but i shall use this example of build profiles just because that's happened recently and i think it illustrates the point or at least some points I'd very much like to discuss things rather than blither on for too long so I try not to blither on for too long so just to clarfiy in case anybody is not clear all of our infrastructure basically runs on stable there are a few exceptions to that for practical reasons so if it is not in stable, you cannot use it in the infrastructure so there are ??