Re: Debian development and release: always releasable (essay)
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Neil McGovern wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:29:11AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>> Some upstreams have a testing branch of there software and a
>> release branch. It's sometimes useful to have people test the
>> version in from the testing branch, and having it available in
>> Debian makes it easier for people to test it.
>>
>
> A couple of options seem to present itself (under current scheme) -
> a) upload to experimental and publically call for testing
> b) upload to unstable and file an RC bug yourself so it doesn't migrate
> c) upload to unstable, wait for migration, then file an RC bug so we
> don't release with it.
Approach c) should really be considered socially unacceptable. In
that case, if the maintainer doesn't get around to solving the
problem, he/she has in effect selfishly forced the rest of the project
into solving problems that they otherwise wouldn't have to deal with
(if that package had never migrated).
Best wishes,
Mike
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