On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:49:06 +0200 Svante Signell <srs@kth.se> wrote: > On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 21:40 +0200, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > > It seems > > > like many DMs package new releases/fixes bugs closer to the release than > > > attending to that now. Of course it is a time/resource issue, but > > > anyway. Why not package pre-releases in experimental, to squeeze bugs > > > out before the new upstream release comes out? > > > > And what makes you assume that? > > I could give several examples of pre-releases and new upstream releases > that are not yet packaged, that will probably enter into wheezy. But you > never know what plan the DMs have for their packages, do you? (That has happened before with other freezes but hopefully we've learnt not to get into that mess again.) You can ask individual maintainers / maintainer teams ... file wishlist bugs for the new version so that everyone can talk about the merits of uploading or delaying until after the release due to unwarranted disruptive changes in the new version... > In order > not to point at specific DMs I defer to mention which packages I'm > thinking of. Bearing in mind your previous question about eglibc, it is probably worth saying now that a new upstream version of such an important package is not something which should be rushed merely to get it into Wheezy. That's a decision for the maintainers in discussion with the release team. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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