Re: Backports, Stable releases, Testing, Oh my!

[Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> [micah]
>> it feels like a bit too aggressive pressure for my tastes. I've seen
>> a lot of developers of packages who have found out their package will
>> be removed from testing, but don't have the time to resolve the
>> situation before it gets removed, resulting in much pulling of hair.
>
> If only we had some kind of a setup where, a few days after you upload
> a fixed version of something, it could reenter testing.  Then maybe all
> that hair trauma wouldn't be needed.

Is 10 days really too long?

The only consequence of having a package removed from testing really
is the 10 day delay to get it back after the next unstable upload
(assuming remaining the remaining rc bugs were fixed).

Best wishes,
Mike