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Re: The new installer



On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:58:31AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:53:28PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> > > I'm not sure I like the way the new installer works -- it seems as though
> > > when I upload a package, it is immediately "accepted", and the bugs are
> > > closed, but then the package still takes the normal 1-2 days to make it into
> > > the main archive.  It seems to me that we shouldn't be closing open bugs
> > > until the package is actually available.
> > 
> > So you want bugs to be closed only when the package is available on all
> > architectures?
> 
> That would seem to be the correct way to do it -- is that a problem for a lot
> of people?  Most of my packages are architecture-independent, so I guess I'm 
> biased.

I think the correct way is as it done now. Else you can also argue
that the package should first be in the testing and stable pools. Else
you might have a chance that the user still runs the buggy package and
files a bugreport. That doesn't make sense to me.

Jeroen Dekkers
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