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Re: Question: How is debian-policy during freeze?



Am Freitag, 24. Dezember 2010 schrieb Julien Cristau:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 13:57:33 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > Dear developers,
> > 
> > how are you dealing with packages during freeze?
> > 
> > Are package versions, which are now in testing frozen even when they are
> > not working? Or do you exchange not working versions from testing
> > against working versikns from unstable shortly before the release?
> > 
> > I just ask, because in the last days I discovered some packages, which
> > are not working in testing, but working in unstable.
> > 
> > One example is "bootcd" which in testing is (grave) version 3.22 and in
> > unstable (already fixed!) version 3.23. But version 3.23 is not being
> > transferred to testing since months.
> > 
> > Doesn't that not brake releases?
> 
> Bugs don't get fixed in testing if they don't get reported.  There's no
> release critical bug filed against the bootcd package in testing.
> 
> Cheers,
> Julien

Yeah, the bug was reported, the bug was fixed, but the version with the fix is 
not beein updated in testing.

Cheers

Hans

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