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Re: uploads to unstable in times of freeze (was Re: debconf as a registry)



On 10/19/2014 at 09:19 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
>> If package is suitable for unstable but not for testing, please
>> upload to unstable and file severe bugreport to keep it from
>> entering testing.
> 
> I thought so too, but learned that this is a bad idea. Sometimes, you
> have to update the package in testing, get a freeze exception or
> somesuch. These all go via unstable.
> 
> So, if it’s not suitable for testing, do not upload it to unstable
> starting a month or so before the freeze.

Does that still apply for a package which isn't in testing at all, and
has never been in unstable before?

Because I wouldn't expect so, and I thought that such a package was what
we were talking about here.

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   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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