Re: Road to Stretch: let's stop increasing major version number in critical libraries at this point
Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl> writes:
> If only all maintainers would coordinate their transitions, too many
> unfortunately don't. And those are unlikely read Thomas' plea either, so
> disruptive library changes caused by uncoordinated transitions are
> unfortunately still likely to happen.
The point of a freeze is that we start using a progressively larger stick
to stop that. People who don't honor the freeze will increasingly risk
having their change just reverted, or their packages not propagating to
testing.
The system for handling this does work rather well (although it's a ton of
work for the release team when people don't pay attention, so please do
note the release timeschedule and coordinate your transitions!).
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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