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Re: woody: Remaining RC bugs in base system



On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:12:13AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:41:01PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > Such is the way of the freeze, I think.  This will have to happen at
> > some point when new versions of base packages stop flowing into testing.
> > Either unstable will have to be frozen as well (in which case, we have
> > missed part of the point of testing) or packages will have to be
> > compiled against woody.
> 
> If packages that are frozen just stay frozen and don't get people starting
> to upload incompatible new versions this wouldn't be a problem.  If
> packages are going to start getting new incompatible versions then aren't
> we going to start getting back to an old-style freeze but without the
> ability to upload to frozen (making bug fixing a bit hard)?

As I understand it, the new release mechanism doesn't necessarily preclude
uploads to frozen under certain specific circumstances if we decide that it
is necessary.

-- 
 - mdz



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