Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net> writes: > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot@ens.fr> [2012-04-06 08:47]: > >> Since we have ported all our packages to Octave 3.6, I suggest to enter >> a 10-day freeze period, during which we refrain from any upload. Since >> our last package was uploaded yesterday, the freeze would end on Sunday >> April 15th. If by that date no new RC bug has been opened and none of >> the few remaining builds has failed, we could close the dummy RC bug >> against Octave and have all our packages migrate to testing at the same >> time. >> >> I prefer not to wait for our reverse dependencies because 1) having our >> packages in testing will increase the incentives for our rdeps to port >> their package and 2) if we wait we will penalize those maintainers that >> have already done the porting work (since they will have to wait for the MIA >> maintainers before having their packages migrate to testing). > > I agree with the freeze idea. As regards the rdeps, please, check with > the release team if it is acceptable to have them broken in testing with > the migration of octave_3.6.1. My understanding is that they won't be broken, since they depend on octave3.2 which is still around. They just won't be co-installable with octave 3.6. Or am I missing something? -- Sébastien Villemot Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Phone: +33-1-40-77-84-04 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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