Re: Please allow biofox 1.1.5-1 in Lenny.
Hi Thijs
Le Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:11:04PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit :
> On Tue, January 27, 2009 14:55, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > I was thinking that changes like the one I made would be accepted until
> > "Deep freeze", since this is the only planned change of unblock policy
> > that was announced:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/12/msg00006.html
>
> Perhaps you misunderstood what the "regular freeze" means. It is the
> stated policy of the release team that only release critical & important
> bugfixes, release goals, translation and documentation updates qualify for
> a freeze exception under the regular freeze. The deep freeze tightens this
> list more. Hence, this change has in principle already not been acceptable
> for freeze exceptions since months, although of course in individual cases
> the release managers could have decided that they would allow that case
> in.
>
> To me it's crystal clear that changes to something as fundamental as the
> package build system without a concrete bug to address, are not
> appropriate in the end of a release cycle; rather, something to be done at
> the beginning.
>
> As I understand it the best gain this change in the debhelper
> compatibility level at this point could bring us, is that the package
> builds just as well as with the existing level. So why did you do that now
> instead of after the freeze?
I did this on the simple assumption that what was good before would be good
later until the next deadline, which is D-I RC2, as in the previous updates I
made nobody told me anything about this kind of issue. Also, I did not expect
this issue to be other than cosmetic since, as I showed in my previous mail, it
changes nothing to the binary packages.
Hope that explains, and have a nice day,
--
Charles
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