Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org
Jérôme Marant <jmarant@nerim.net> schrieb:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 02:48:01PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>>> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
>>> > When we used to freeze unstable before a release, one of the problems
>>> > was that many updates were blocked by that, and once the freeze was
>>> > over, unstable tended to become _very_ unstable, and took months to get
>>> > back into shape.
>>>
>>> What do you think we'd get by combining both (testing + unstable freeze)?
>>
>> My guess is that the release team would go insane having to approve
>> every upload to unstable.
>
> I don't think so. Dinstall would reject any new upstream release.
> Approvals would only apply to t-p-u just like it is done
> currently.
Oh, it would be easy for me to break the tetex-packages (and cause lots
of FTBFS bugs) just by applying all the great ideas about improved
packaging that I have in mind. No upstream version needed for that.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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