Re: live-* packages
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 01:52:18PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Mittwoch, 8. September 2010, Daniel Baumann wrote:
>> > Well, it was the case during lenny's freeze because (if I'm not
>> > mistaken) the packages were still brand new at that time, which doesn't
>> > apply anymore.
>>
>> this is not what luk said to me last release cycle.
>>
>> > Besides, I don't see changes having something related to
>> > the archive's state. If there are any, please comment on them.
>>
>> people (including me) can't really do wide tests of images that can't be
>> build in the first place if not all tasks are installable. that's why
>> some bugs only turn up quite late in the release cycle.
>
>a few packages are in this boat: debian-cd, live-* packages, debian-edu, fai
>and probably others.
True. I'm expecting to continue my long-standing tradition of
debian-cd being one of the last packages uploaded before the
release...
>what they also have in common is that breakage in them doesnt affect other
>packages.
>
>so IMHO all these kind of packages should be treated differently then the
>rest. equally to the rest they should also only be updated with care and sane
>diffs :)
Of course!
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