Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release
Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> writes:
> I personally consider this a regrettable situation, and hope that for
> jessie and beyond we can work out how to do this better. It is
> unacceptable to me to "freeze" anything in sid for more than a week or
> two at a time. Holding d-i's build dependencies static in unstable for
> more than half a year is just nuts to me! Sure seems like d-i is
> something we should build using the components of the release it will be
> contained in and not unstable... but I haven't tried to think hard about
> what that might imply that's problematic. And I certainly don't think
> this is something we should even consider changing at this late date in
> for wheezy release cycle!
Yes. This is pretty much exactly how I feel. And I suspect it's a
general feeling by a lot of people: we freeze for too long, and we don't
like a lot of the implications of that, but we don't know how to do better
and get releases out faster because there's a truly intimidating amount of
work that has to get done to do the release and all the alternatives seem
to make the work even worse.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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