Entering carefulperiod 2 for 2025Q4 (Dec 2 - 15)

[maya%NetBSD.org@localhost]

Hi all,


I'll be the release manager for 2025Q4, and I'm following the
https://www.pkgsrc.org/quarterly/ guidelines for branching.
Per these instructions, we are now enteringthe second careful period,
in the hopes of having a successful Q4 branch.

If you are planning to update any of the following packages, you will
need PMC or release manager approval:

- rust

- firefox

- gtk3

- wayland

- cmake

- non-micro updates to pbulk, distcc, ccache, and similar things that
  have non-trivial use to build packages at scale

- non-micro updates to widely-used non-versioned languages (e.g. perl
  5.X->5.X+1, ocaml)

- changing the default version of versioned languages and systems
  (e.g. go, guile, php, python, ruby, postgresql, mysql)

- non-micro updates to packages with more than 500 (recursive)
  dependencies

The restrictions of careful period 1 still apply:

- any package always needing approval (boost, gmake, qt5) -
    the standard answer will be wait until after the branch

- any change in mk that is intended to result in build failures
    (typically for things that were warnings before)

- clang/llvm (New versions almost always are backwards incompatible.)

- poppler* (frequent API changes)

- Any package with a history of a troubled update in the last 3 years:
    glib2
    py-sip6


Thank you.