Re: speeding up the release cycle (was Re: Debian's problems)

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Jens Ritter wrote:

> We could have a frozen branch in the archive all the time.
> A package can only get there, if
> 
>  a) the maintainer uploads a known good version to it (by tagging it
>     for frozen) and  
>  b) the package does not have a release critical bug against it.
> 
> If a release critical bug is opened, the package will be removed and
> cannot get back there without a testing period (?).

And don't forget to also remove all packages that depend on it so
as to not breaks dependencies.  That could be a lot when libc6 or
Perl breaks.

Peter