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Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1



On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:50:35AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > (I also share most of his conclusions. Why do we make a release plan
> > if a lot of important packages ignore the plan?)

> Is it possible to automate _enforcing_ any parts of the release plan
> (eg. rejecting library so-name changes or such)?

Given that each soname change requires a package name change, and every
package name change requires a manual override by an ftpmaster, yes,
it's theoretically possible to "automate" the process of not approving
new package uploads during a given stage of the release process.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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