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Re: Freezing trouble.



On Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 09:40:12PM +0100, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
> Some questions about the freeze:
> 
> * To move a package back from orphaned, the only thing I need to
>   do is to use frozen instead of unstable in the changelog, right?

	Right.

> * When linian sent bug reports, every error came in one report.
>   Amongst the errors for one of my packages was missing manpage.
>   Now, policy dictates that these should not be closed until a
>   proper manpage has been written, however I must close it so that
>   the package can be included in hamm. Close and open a new bug?

	Keep the bug open, downgrade its severity.

> * I got the error score-file-may-not-be-conffile. The conffile is
>   a file that says which levels exist, and I obviously don't want
>   to overwrite local modifications. Why shouldn't this be conffile?

	You should then create that file in postinst and remove it in
postrm.

> * I uploaded two bugfix versions before the freeze, and didn't
>   get to closing the bugs. Should I upload new versions, or somehow
>   move the fixed ones?

	I think you should upload new versions :(

-- 
Juan Cespedes


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