Re: Question to all candidates about stable point releases
* Raphael Hertzog (hertzog@debian.org) [060307 16:22]:
> On Tue, 07 Mar 2006, Marc Haber wrote:
> > I note that it took you 16 days to reply, and that you seem to want to
> > build a dependency between a change which is not strictly needed to
> > make a point release (if it were needed, why was it possible to
> > release 3.1r1?) and 3.1r2. May I ask why?
>
> It seemed obvious to me. If uploads to s-p-u are blocked for approval by
> the SRM, this needs to happen just after a point release so that s-p-u is empty
> to start with the new system (probably because once a package is in s-p-u,
> there's no easy way to remove it and removing manually doesn't make much sense).
And what is the problem to introduce that with 3.1r3 or even 3.1r4?
(Though of course the original mail should still be answered, but why is
this a blocking point for the point release?)
Cheers,
Andi
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