Re: Stable updates

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

Phil Brooke <philb@soc.plym.ac.uk> writes:

> If I have a package with fixes that I think may be worthy of going into a
> stable point release, do I
>  - just upload it to proposed-updates (by setting the distribution to
>    stable in the changelog) and assume that if it is not worthy, it will
>    simply be ignored/rejected;
>  - email the stable release manager about it before doing anything else;
>    or
>  - something else?

Unless the fixes are "obvious"[1] for a stable release, I'd email the
SRM and ask.  If you don't get a response in a reasonable time, upload
anyway.

-- 
James

[1] That is: security fixes or critical (i.e. the original is useless
    or dangerous without them) fixes.