Re: New release of uw-imap prepared and uploaded to experimental

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Jonas Smedegaard [Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:35:57 +0200]:

Hello, Jonas,

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 09:24:46PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> >In case you weren't aware, you need to *tell* the release team you've 
> >gone forward if you want your transition managed in any way.

> Thanks for clarifying.

> I got no feedback (before now), and thought that perhaps your new 
> package blocking mechanisms made it less relevant for you to 
> coordinate each specific package transition.  So I went on and uploaded 
> to unstable...

> I am not writing this to excuse myself - I know that you must be busy 
> these days, and I should of course have had more (but how much?) 
> patience.

> I write it more to help give you a hint on how a package maintainer 
> might react (correct or not) on not getting a response on email sent to 
> your list.

Yeah. There are two issues here:

  * the fact that you went ahead and uploaded without an ack: this is in
    my opinion perfectly fine, because we failed to get back to you at
    all (we try that this doesn't happen too often, but I'm afraid it
    really does :/)

  * the fact that once a soname-bumping package is uploaded to unstable,
    -release must get notified so that we know of its existance; I
    thought the need for this was common knowledge, and I may have
    sounded a bit too harsh because of that.

Thanks,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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