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Re: Suggestion: Skip Slink!



Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@CS.WM.EDU> wrote:
> Making a restriction that a maintainer cannot upload a *package* to
> unstable until all release critical bugs on that *package* are closed
> would make sense.  Expanding this to "a maintainer cannot release an
> unstable version of package A until their release critical bugs on their 
> package B are fixed" would be a bad thing IMHO.

I think our problem can be addressed in future by not creating an unstable
distribution until the frozen one is released.  After all, Linus doesn't start
working on 2.3.* until 2.2.0 is released, does he?

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