Quoting Gerfried Fuchs (rhonda@deb.at): > > Something that I already mentioned to maintainers each time they were > > breaking templates for these packages (which happened a *lot*)... > > Well, if it happens a *lot* it would be sufficient for me to justify a > debian-devel-announce mail about it. Do you want to write one yourself, > have a suggestion for a text for it, or leave this decision to someone > else completely? I am lacking the background about the *lot* > unfortunately, but I trust you that your emphasis is justified. My initial statement was apparently confusing: maintainers do not change their debconf tempaltes a *lot*.....they indeed do it fairly rarely and I think that having some ppl whining constantly about this had this effect for lenny: last minute templates changes are very seldom now. What happens a *lot* are changes to the mysql-dfsg-* packages.....at least from my own and maybe biased, point of view. It is hard (and not comfortable) to "point fingers" and I have too much respect for the debian package maintainers to do this angrily. So, well, as this is restricted to these packages, I don't think that an announcement would be appropriate.
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