On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:38:42 +0200 Rhonda D'Vine <rhonda@deb.at> wrote: > 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. I understand that and I'm grateful that the policy exists, now that I know what it is designed to achieve. > 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. That will be most helpful, thank you. > So long, > Rhonda > P.S.: just emptied the policy queue, you should get your accept mail > within the next minutes. Excellent news, thanks. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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