Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion
On Mon June 2 2008 19:05:38 Luk Claes wrote:
> Mike Bird wrote:
> > A good idea but it doesn't go far enough. Personally I don't find
> > d-i tasks to be any more important than "the packages I need", and
> > I suspect millions of Debian users have equivalent opinions.
>
> That's what rc-alert is for.
You want millions of Debian users to install devscripts? Even if they
did, how would rc-alert help them?
> > Artificially lowering the RC count in Testing is not always
> > preferential to keeping Testing in a state amenable to testing.
>
> You say yourself that it's not artificially as RC bugs in "new" packages
> don't get that easily in testing anymore...
Removing long-standing packages and stigmatizing them as "new" in order
to keep the RC count down is artificial because such packages are not
new. It should only be done very late in the release process if the
packages are too late to be fixed for the next release.
You may regard the process as some kind of perverse incentive to DDs but
the direct consequences of Testing missing long-standing packages is to
make Testing unfriendly to newbies, annoying for experienced users, hence
less valuable for testing Debian, hence less valuable for improving Debian.
--Mike Bird
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