Re: old ITP's

[David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:05:35PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> > >   #87667 gstreamer                            filed:  546, changed  546
> > 
> > As an example, this package was uploaded to experimental on friday,
> > and has been packaged upstream for about a year.  It was last changed
> > 62 days ago.
> 
> Why experimental?

Because it's not ready for unstable.

gstreamer-plugins build-deps on 38 packages, at least 6 of which have
constantly changing ABIs (and some, APIs).  Because of this, it's not
clear to me that it would ever have a chance of making it into testing
without a lot of luck, and I'm making sure that the (non-DD) maintainer
has the flexibility to drastically change the packaging if necessary.



dave...