Bug#90511: new-proposal] (was disallow multi-distribution uploads)

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

I'm pondering a new angle to this. Perhaps we don't even need to mess
with dinstall. What would really suffice is a check in the testing
scripts that disallows anything moving from unstable to testing if it
depends on something marked obsolete.

This could be anything in oldlibs, and special overrides discussed and
decided on debian-devel@l.d.o. I need to talk to Anthony to see if this
is possible in his scripts. Good thing is, this doesn't require any
policy, doesn't keep the maintainer from doing things (although it will
keep his package out of testing), and still controls all the problems I
mentioned without keeping out legitimate instances that Herbert pointed
out.

I'm going to keep this bug open just temporarily until I get an outcome
from this with aj.

Ben

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