Re: A suggestion for the woody freeze

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> But boot-floppies depend on _many_ non-base packages - and all of these
> non-base packages are non-frozen and a new upstream version of any of
> these packages might break boot-floppies (see e.g. #127405) and for other
> standard+tasks packages themselves it's quite usual that new upstream
> versions get uploaded. I have a big problem with this "get it bug-free
> before it gets frozen" approach because in practice this means we try to
> get a moving target bug-free.

Well perhaps the boot floppies dependencies should have been considered
base for the purposes of the freeze.

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