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Re: Idea for dealing with transitions



* Petter Reinholdtsen [Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:44:45 +0100]:

> One issue to try to avoid is for such blocks to last longer than the
> transition they are supposed to help.  Would it be an idea for the
> format to include a reference to the transition, for example using a
> package and version number that is supposed to make it into testing
> before the block is disabled, to make sure the block do not last
> longer than it should?

This is a very good idea, thanks. Personally, for simplicity's sake, I'd
rather not have that code go into dak itself, and we (the release team)
just have a script to auto-expire stuff from the file.

Cheers,

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