Dear all, A few things happened lately which made me wonder. Looking at bootstrap-base, there's this commit: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/base-installer.git/commit/?id=a8b68f8e5c268127f443c055a9efdf9740133115 which totally broke d-i, which got uploaded on 2016-11-13, and there's still no released fix for it one whole week after that. I'm not thrilled about this kind of “push and forget” (git) or “upload and forget” (in the archive). We need to do better. (About this specific issue I've just checked with Philip Hands, who seems to be happy with testing etc., so an upload is forthcoming, but I wanted not to miss the opportunity to point out this kind of issues.) Looking at debootstrap, there's this commit: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debootstrap.git/commit/?id=988c5ca36a4cb44e0ba3a143f70b6ae8a7e5afdc which was announced (alright, on IRC, but still) as being stashed here just in case; but dpkg patches were sent right after that, making the need for this revert moot. Yet, it got uploaded a few days after. It's not really ideal to revert defaults, because it generates confusion for users, and makes support unnecessary hard. (How many people are reporting issues with dailies, or weeklies… are they speaking about d-i dailies, cdimage dailies, cdimage weeklies anyway?) Christian, I'm very happy with your uploading l10n only changes so that translation updates don't take too long before reaching the archive. But when code changes are involved, maybe it would be better to poke people having pushed code so that they take responsibility for their changes, and so that you don't get to be pointed at when wondering who broke what. I'll happily take comments and suggestions to improve our workflow (or maybe lack thereof). Thanks for your time. KiBi.
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