Re: Backports, Stable releases, Testing, Oh my!

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 02/28/2014 09:40 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>>
>> [micah]
>>> it feels like a bit too aggressive pressure for my tastes. I've seen
>>> a lot of developers of packages who have found out their package will
>>> be removed from testing, but don't have the time to resolve the
>>> situation before it gets removed, resulting in much pulling of hair.
>>
>> If only we had some kind of a setup where, a few days after you upload
>> a fixed version of something, it could reenter testing.  Then maybe all
>> that hair trauma wouldn't be needed.
> 
> Is 10 days really too long?
> 
> The only consequence of having a package removed from testing really
> is the 10 day delay to get it back after the next unstable upload
> (assuming remaining the remaining rc bugs were fixed).
> 
> Best wishes,
> Mike

AFAICT, it's 5 days now.

Thomas