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Re: Debian's branches and release model



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.

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