Bug#696254: qa.debian.org: PTS has outdated current policy version
Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:59:14PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
>> Russ, in his 3.9.4 announcement, reminded us not to gratuitously update
>> the S-V of a package during the freeze (and he did mention 3.9.4 there)
> I think he meant that doing uploads and requesting unblocks just to bump
> the standards-version is not so useful.
The release team have, in the past, asked people not to make changes like
bumping the standards version in changes that need to be reviewed, since
it adds noise to the diff and makes their job harder. So it's more than
just not uploading solely for standards version changes, but also that one
shouldn't change it in uploads targetted for stable.
> I agree about "a gratuitous bump". About "a bump" however, I think that
> fixing RC bugs combined with bumping the standards-version without
> further changes is not wrong.
I'm happy to go with this policy if the release team is okay with it. My
understanding is that they'd rather people not do this, which is where my
hesitation comes from.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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