Hi folks, after some discussions during the debconf and on IRC I want to publish the following proposal about our backports handling during the upcoming freeze (Remember, remember! The fifth of November). What is the problem: After the freeze, testing migration is disabled, so no new packages/versions usually enter testing (except for approved bugfixes). Additionally it is recommended - if you upload a new version that is not intended for jessie - to use experimental instead of unstable as target for your upload. This has the consequence that backports will also freeze. Depending on how long the freeze takes, this is very annoying for several people. Therefore I propose the following handling during the freeze: 1) We open wheezy-backports-sloppy with the freeze 2) we will allow packages from unstable and experimental that into wheezy-backports-sloppy after a 10 day period. Some people also asked for opening jessie-backports too, I am a little bit unsure about this case. I don't want to end up with packages in jessie-backports that will never be in jessie+1. So maybe we could say that we open jessie-backports for packages from unstable/experimental that are definitly planned for jessie+1. What do you guys think? Alex
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