Re: Please respect Freeze Policy
Andrey,
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014, at 17:08, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 03:36:37PM +0000, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > Didier> (Snipping others' parts, and moving to -devel)
> >
> > Didier> Given the (current) small exposure of
> > Didier> testing-proposed-updates (aka the repository has very few
> > Didier> users, therefore the packages there get very few testing),
> > Didier> unstable is supposed to stay the anti-chamber of testing,
> > Didier> mostly at all times: whatever you upload to unstable should
> > Didier> be aimed at the next stable release.
> >
> > Didier> None of this changes during freezes, where unstable should
> > Didier> only have changes targeted at testing (and therefore,
> > Didier> currently, at jessie).Using experimental for new upstream
> > Didier> versions is not at all an abuse; it's exactly the suite one
> > Didier> should be targeting for these changes!
> >
> >
> > Hi. You assert that even for leaf packages we should not make changes
> > in unstable targeted beyond jessie. I can see an argument for that
> > prior to the important bug deadline. However, past that point, I don't
> > see value in avoiding changes to leaf packages in unstable, and I'd like
> > to understand why you'd encourage folks to do so.
> What if an RC bug gets discovered in the package?
Who has been a naughty boy this year and hadn't read the Jessie
freeze-policy?
https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html
> If the version in unstable has significant changes that cannot be reversed or stuck behind other packages that are not acceptable, please contact the release team (i.e. file a bug) for doing your upload to testing-proposed-updates. However, please remember that stricter rules apply to testing-proposed-updates (see here for the rules.)
;-)
Cheers,
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