Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads)
>>"Ben" == Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
Ben> What is a legitimate reason for uploading to stable/unstable other than
Ben> convience? I see none.
Is there a reason for policy to disallow convenience
(incidentally, what reason is there to use helper packages other than
convenience?
Ben> However, there are inherent problems with allowing
Ben> stable/unstable uploads, which I have outlined.
No, you have outlined problems in dinstall and the buildd
process. There is inherently no reason not to have multiple versions
of a package in the same distribution using package pools, apart from
the current implementation of dinstall. There is not technical reason
for not building uploads to stable unstable twice in buildd either.
Ben> Because of that, and because there are no technical reasons
Ben> otherwise, I feel that they should be disallowed, to prevent the
Ben> problems.
Fix the root of the problem. Making people do two uploads
because of flaws in the process should not be enshrined in policy.
manoj
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