Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads)
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 03:09:30AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 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?
That should be possible for the ftp-admins to do given the pgsql
database interface. However, I would like them to comment on how much of
a burden they think it is.
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