On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 08:16:34AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:08:13 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli <leader@debian.org> wrote: > > I hereby submit to your attention the "dpkg multi-arch conflict". > > I believe the issue is well-known, so I describe it only briefly > > below; > I also believe we've had sufficient discussion about this issue, and I > therefore call for an immediate vote on the following ballot. My thanks > to Russ Allbery for help drafting the text. > A. While recognizing the substantial benefits of thorough code review, the > Technical Committee believes the goal of multiarch support in the > Debian wheezy release is sufficiently important as to warrant accepting > the current draft implementation into the archive, even if code review > by the primary dpkg C maintainer cannot be completed in time. However, > as much review as possible is strongly desired. > > The Technical Committee therefore overrides the decision of the dpkg > maintainer to require complete code review before upload of the > multiarch implementation in dpkg to the Debian archive and sets the > following upload dates: > > February 6th: upload to experimental for general testing > February 20th: upload to unstable > > For each of those deadlines, if no implementation of dpkg with > multiarch support has been uploaded to the archive for that > distribution by that date, Raphaël Hertzog is empowered by the > Technical Committee to upload a version of dpkg with multiarch support > to that distribution. The upload may be done on or after that date, > when, in his judgement, the dpkg implementation meets the quality > standards expected for a Debian core package in those archive > distributions. > > The Technical Committee strongly encourages anyone with the required > knowledge to review the multiarch implementation proposed for upload > and provide the results of that review to the debian-dpkg list as soon > as possible so that the code can receive as much review as possible and > the results of that review can be incorporated into the code by those > dates. Similarly, the Technical Committee encourages as broad testing > and review of the experimental implementation as possible so that as > many bugs as possible can be resolved prior to uploading it to > unstable. > > This option requires a 3:1 majority. > > B. The Technical Committee declines to override the decision of the dpkg > maintainer to hold the dpkg multiarch implementation until he can > finish code review. > > C. Further discussion. I vote ACB. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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