Re: [2001-11-29] Freeze Update
On Thursday 29 November 2001 01:39 am, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:36:51AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Out of interest: How is the following problem handled?
> > At the time when the part of testing where package abc belongs to:
> > unstable:
> > Package: abc
> > Version: 3
> > testing:
> > Package: abc
> > Version: 1
> > - Version 2 of abc fixed a RC bug.
> > - Version 3 of the package didn't make it into testing because it has
> > e.g. a dependency on a more recent version of a library that didn't
> > make it into testing.
> > - The maintainer of abc is perhaps busy/MIA/...
>
> (a) Solutions are more helpful than problems.
> (b) We try to avoid having the libraries abc_3 depends on stuck in
> unstable. (c) We try to avoid having abc_3 depend on libraries that're
> likely to get stuck.
> (d) We remove abc from testing.
> (e) abc_2 gets uploaded to w-p-u, depending on the libraries in testing.
>
(f) it's handled like a security issue, and the fix from abc_2 is backported
to abc_1, which gets nmu'd by e.g. qa or someone who wants the package to be
released instead of removed.
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