Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads)
>>"Ben" == Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
Ben> The only objections I have seen are simplified by "it is too difficult
Ben> to for that one maintainers" and "it should be possible to do this for
Ben> packages that do not break".
You now have wnother one: There is little technical merit in
disallowing the uploads, since it is not forbidden to build packages
for unstable on stable systems. Given that fact, if a package is
built in stable, and uploaded to unstable as well (perfectly legal
under the current and proposed policy), there is no benefit
whatsoever to imposing this arbitary rule.
Ben> As for the first. Multi distributions occur so infrequently that it
Ben> should not be a problem to do this. Most of the time a package is
Ben> already diverged between stable and unstable, so two uploads are still
Ben> required in that case for security fixes. Enforcing this just means we
Ben> have more consistency. Allowing it for convenience makes no technical
Ben> sense.
Infrequency of uploads is not a technical argument. If
something is right, how infrequently it occurs is irrelevant.
Ben> As for allowing them in cases where they don't fall into any of my
Ben> listed points of breakage, I ask that you give a solid technical reason
Ben> why even those should be allowed, other than simple convienience. I see
Ben> no reason for it. In fact, the only technical reason was back when we
Ben> had frozen/unstable uploads, and they do not occur any longer.
No. You are asking for a policy change. The burden is on you
to provide a solid reason for changing, other than flaws in dinstall
and buildd.
manoj
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