Re: Accepted backports not showing up in the archive|PTS?

[Rhonda D'Vine <rhonda@deb.at>]

    Hi,

* Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> [2017-03-31 09:05:47 CEST]:
> Any idea how long that will take?

 We go over the packages usually at least once a week, sometimes more
regularly.

> Also, could the policy be published please? How close is it to the
> freeze policy of the release team? Why was the policy introduced?

 The policy queue was used before already and has been in effect for
wheezy-backports since about the same time before the release of wheezy.
It is there to not get packages into jessie-backports which won't get
into stretch.  And yes, this is not just an hypothetical precaution, I
had to prod a few people already who uploaded to jessie-backports for
packages which are only in sid and didn't had any unblock requests.  We
consider a well defined upgrade path to be more useful than a few days
of delay.

 Sorry that the switch to policy queue for jessie-backports wasn't
announce, Holger is right that it should be - and thanks for the
suggestion to add it to the FAQ, will do that later.

 So long,
Rhonda
P.S.: just emptied the policy queue, you should get your accept mail
within the next minutes.
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