Re: DPLs : what do you think about ...
Martin Schulze wrote:
> Oh, this doesn't seem to be entirely true. The FTP maintainers have a lot
> of hassle with all new packages. Not with regular and known ones for
> unstable though. Dark just said some days ago that they're partially
> timely bound to new packages and have only few time to improve maintenance
> tools.
Yes, new packages are also handled manually, but the new package will be
uploaded eventually anyway, and this is a one-time load on the maintainers.
Removing unstable would not change the work due to new packages, it would
just redistribute it.
> Regarding uploads to frozen, they are not managed by the ftp maintainers
> but by the release engeneer. He however has to deal with them manually
> and approve each and every upload - or disapprove it.
So Ben's argument is even more invalid.
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