Re: Lenny frozen
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 04:00:53PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> Now, so as not to have everyone contact us at once about packages we
>> know we won't approve, here are the guidelines for changes that will be
>> accepted into testing during the freeze:
>>
>
> I uploaded a new version of tbb a little over a week ago, but I am
> concerned because it is currently in NEW. It does not meet any of the
> exception requirements, but it is a new upstream release. The package
> is passing through NEW again because with the new upstream release Intel
> introduced doxygen documentation for the library, which I thought it was
> best to place into a seperate binary pacakge because of its size.
Right, though it's not as if the freeze came suddenly. As all, but a
very few, packages in NEW were processed till about a week ago, having
the package in NEW is a non argument IMHO.
> I'd like to request a freeze excpetion based on the following:
>
> - relatively low popcon count (50; few users affected)
> - the packages have been tested by the primary users (Athena Captial
> Research) without reported issues
> - tbb has no r-deps (except for amongst its own binary packages)
> - The package has a history of being relatively bug free
You failed to point out what's wrong with the current version in
unstable/testing...
This probably won't be accepted a freeze exception.
Cheers
Luk
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