On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 12:33:14AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > [Christian Perrier] > > What about allowing l10n-only updates? I'm pretty sure some > > maintainers have sleeping bugs in the BTS for such packages. I also > > hope for a few more l10n updates for shadow (which templates appear in > > the installation process). > Anthony Towns wrote in > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/01/msg00680.html > ] I guess the alternative would be to setup something like: > ] > ] Day 1: Cleanup freeze begins. No uploads that aren't approved > ] by RM team will make it into the next stable. Uploads > ] will be approved that fix security bugs, and translations > ] for packages that have been last uploaded less than four > ] weeks ago. Other uploads that include important fixes may > ] be accepted. > ] Day 15: Security freeze only. Uploads will only be accepted that > ] fix security issues. > ] Day 30: Release > ] > ] This would mean the translation team would have to have someone collating > ] translations for packages and NMUing them, and that they'd have to be on > ] the ball enough to have already uploaded translations for things that > ] haven't changed in the past month, and to finish off everything in a > ] couple of weeks. It'd have to be NMUs in at least some cases, because > ] a couple of weeks probably isn't enough time to coordinate with all > ] maintainers. It'd have to be a couple of weeks, because without britney, > ] a separate distribution is just too much of a nuisance to maintain. And > ] it'd have to be limited to packages that have recently been uploaded > ] to ensure that we don't come across any unknown FTBFS problems due to > ] changes in the toolchain. > That sounded quite reasonable, any chance to have such a freeze? Yes, you can assume that l10n uploads to t-p-u will also be accepted starting August 1 under the terms described above. With the split base/main freeze, the exact intervals will probably vary a little. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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