On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:15:52PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > On Mon, 08.02.2010 at 20:13:48 +0100, Marc Brockschmidt <he@debian.org> wrote: > > we wish to freeze only after the number of these bugs has dropped below > > the mark of 300. As you can see on the usual overview pages [RC-Bugs], > great decision, imho. Well, it really depends *which* bug you consider, see for instance [1]. > > Work towards fixing these bugs is greatly appreciated. We will use our > > release superpowers to aggressively remove leaf packages from testing > > (in fact, another round of removals happened on the weekend). > What's the current policy about NMUs, then? That's a good question, but also not-a-problem. Current *legacy* guidelines (i.e. non-overridden by the Release Team) already allows you to do very quick DELAYED/2 NMUs for RC bugs which have been outstanding for a while [2]. I've been doing that for a while now, and IME it is generally welcome by maintainers [3]. So, please, do not expect any further specific authorization from the release team before feeling entitled to NMU, you can already go a long way with legacy NMU rules. You don't need anything more to start squashing RC bugs today, really :-) Cheers. [1] http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/releasing-squeeze-6 [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu-guidelines [3] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/hacking/debian/rcbw/ -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
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