Re: debian-policy is blocking multiarch

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:33:06AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Steve Langasek (vorlon) informed me on irc that the policy changes for
> multiarch are commited now but not yet released and this is now blocking
> the progress of multiarch as in the case of eglibc:
> 
> 11:21 < vorlon> mrvn: the change is committed; talk to the policy maintainers 
>         about getting a new policy release out
> 
> 11:22 < vorlon> I don't want maintainers uploading crackful pseudo-multiarch 
>         packages willy-nilly because they decide "it must be ok if glibc is 
>         doing it" and have no published policy to refer to
> 
> As multiarch is a release goal[1] and the freeze is aproaching fast
> every day delayed makes it that much harder to reach the goal.
> 
> Please consider releasing a new policy version asap.

OK, I will release the new policy soon if there is no objection from the
other maintainers. Sorry I did not notice there were normative changes.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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