Re: Suggestion: Skip Slink!
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > On a somewhat related topic, why is it that even though I run dselect
> > only against slink, new packages are *still* popping up? Is this a whole
> > new definition of the word "frozen" of which I was unaware?
>
> Packages that fix release critical bugs are allowed into frozen.
> Otherwise we may as well release frozen as stable the day it turns frozen.
> Frozen means we do a feature freeze, not a package upload freeze.
I imagine Steve meant 'new' as in 'new packages' not 'new versions'. I'd
noticed the same thing myself, and wondered about it.
Jules
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