Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads)
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:42:57PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Well my point is that disallowing "stable unstable" doesn't solve those
> problems for most packages, as "stable unstable" uploads are rare to start
> with. And for packages which don't have these problems, this incurs
> significant overhead on the part of the maintainer.
There are indeed some packages were it doesn't matter where you build it,
and where the interfaces don't change between Debian revisions.
I think the cases are few, but there is no need to burden the maintainers in
those cases, even when Bens proposal gets accepted.
I suggest for these cases that the upload is done for unstable (only),
and a bug report is filed against ftp.debian.org or some other suitable
virtual package (for example "stable-releases"), requesting inclusion
into stable. This is not a lot of work. The release manager needs to
look at this place of course, instead in the upload queue. It's just a
matter of how to communicate it to the release manager. Do you think
this is a workable compromise?
Thanks,
Marcus
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