Re: Bug#871105: Status of debian-faq
Hi Tobias,
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:18:41PM +0100, Dr. Tobias Quathamer wrote:
> Am 10.01.2019 um 06:46 schrieb Joost van Baal-Ilić:
> > Saw you've uploaded "byhand: 9.0" on november 17, great! Upload is now
> > displayed at https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html.
> >
> > I'll keep an eye on the progress of the NEW queue handling and plan to work
> > on the SGML-XML conversion.
>
> yes, the upload has been stuck in NEW for almost two months now. I'm not
> sure why.
I guess ftp-masters are busy, and handling a 'by-hand' request is more work
than a regular upload.
> Is there anything else that needs to be done to get it into
> unstable?
The only thing _we_ could do is kindly remind/ask ftp masters to process the
request. I believe there still is some time before the freeze, so I would not
ask them now yet.
> > I feel we should try to get your 9.0 in Buster, if not a newer XML-ized
> > upload.
>
> Hm, wouldn't Buster need the version 10.0 in order to match the version
> of the Buster release itself? Just wondering ...
Yes, ideally it should...
Bye,
Joost
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