Re: Debian's branches and release model
On 10/20/21 7:52 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 02:43:47AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>>> However, the problem with freezing testing but not freezing unstable is
>>> that if you do that, all updates to testing during the freeze (to fix the
>>> release-critical bugs that stop it from already being ready for release)
>>> have to go into testing via testing-proposed-updates, which approximately
>>> nobody uses.
>>
>> We don't use it, because we're told to use unstable...
> It's about using on machines, not about uploading.
>
>> If we were told that it's ok to upload changes to unstable during the
>> freeze, and upload to testing-proposed-updates, we'd do it (and IMO,
>> it'd be a very good move from the release team).
> The RT position on this was always "nobody uses t-p-u it so please no", as
> repeated every freeze when someone asks why we don't do this.
>
It's a chicken and egg issue. If nobody uploads there, nobody with have
any incentive to set it up.
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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