Re: is wheezy frozen already?
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> Can you elaborate on that a little? The link you provided below doesn't
> explain the status of NEW - but Google found various things suggesting
> that Debian stopped accepting new packages before squeeze was released.
NEW is not managed by the release team and I remember that new
packages were accepted into unstable and experimental during the
squeeze freeze, but obviously not into squeeze itself.
> Does the package have to be in unstable or it actually has to have
> progressed to testing as well before the freeze?
For the last few freezes, the release team accepted packages uploaded
to unstable before the freeze into testing. No idea if they will do
that again, but I imagine they will.
> When deadlines are set, will there be any kind of notice for people to
> get things uploaded? Or the release team just make a decision one day
> and it is effective immediately?
I would expect a final d-d-a mail when the freeze date is decided.
Watching the #debian-release I've seen such an mail being mentioned.
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