Re: Please respect Freeze Policy
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 10:08:38PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Unfortunately, it is equally disruptive when people (despite best
> efforts) misjudge the consequences of their upload. In such a case, you
> would be depriving your fellow co-Debianites from the opportunity of
> getting some patches into testing.
> /This/ is why we recommend that people upload new upstream releases
> (etc.) to experimental.
Even if you disregard forcing fixes to go through t-p-u, uploads to unstable
do cause practical problems even for users of pure unstable. For example,
thanks to libldb1, packages like samba, kde-runtime and many others are
uninstallable and will remain so for months.
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