freeze excemption handling
Hi,
as more and more packages are frozen, it becomes more and more important
that everyone in the release team knows how to do freeze excemptions. This
mail contains some rough guidelines and hints.
All freeze excemption needs to be asked by mail to
debian-release@lists.debian.org - and whoever acts (or decides to reject
the request) needs to answer there too. This is even true for updates
done by people inside the release team - and please don't review your
own patches.
If someone requests a freeze excemption, please check if the changes are
ok according to the current freeze status (and please check in hints/freeze
for which reason(s) a package is frozen, and coordinate with the d-i RMs in
case it needs approval from them). Please remember that a package might be
frozen for multiple reasons. If a package is frozen by another member of
the release team (instead of in the hints/freeze-file), please speak
with this person before unfreezing.
In case you are not sure if the changes are ok, please check with someone
else from the release team - and please remember, the default answer is no
for such a request.
Please leave the >= important packages or more complicated changes to the
senior release team members. We don't specify who is "senior" here, that
might even be different in different areas - the reason is just that a
mistake might be worse in such cases. In the end, it is your
responsibility which packages you approve, so please be careful.
Two small hints: The tool debdiff is very powerfull. Also, there is
~aba/bin/d on spohr - just call "d packagename", and you will see the
differences between the version in testing-proposed-updates (if that
exists) or unstable and testing in your pager (use PAGER to change it, if
you want). After quitting your pager, you will see the appropriate unblock
request output on stdout.
Cheers,
Andi
--
http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/
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