Quoting NoisyCoil (2025-09-22 00:07:59)
> On 21/09/25 23:05, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Please do not do that. When you know(!) that dependencies are not
> > satisfied but are at the risk of month-long NEW queue processing,
> > upload to experimental instead of to unstable.
>
> I started doing that an hour ago with matrix-pickle{-derive,}. I don't
> know how much gain will come from it: those packages were not there
> before, nobody was relying on them, we would not break anything already
> existing in there. But I see the logic behind it: if the time delta
> between acceptance of deps becomes too large, it may start to become an
> issue. So why not.
Thanks.
For the cases where a new package is introduced into Debian, obviously
noone rely on it. The point is that as soon as it enters unstable,
someone *may* rely on it.
- Jonas
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