On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 21:31:04 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Neil McGovern (neilm@debian.org): > > > This would be too late for the freeze, which will be happening in June. > > *that*, I know..:-) > > > > So, I would like to pre-ask for a freeze exception for samba in case > > > wheezy is frozen before July 2nd. Of course, it would be better to do > > > that with a diff, but: > > > - I don't have it > > > - it will be quite big (as I said, many bugfixes). > > > > > > > Is there a pre-release or rc candidate that you could upload before the > > freeze? > > If only. But, no. This is not Samba Team policy to do beta and RC > releases before they ship a stable update. Indeed, their one and only > release manager just cannot afford that. > Well they'd presumably get more testing that way, meaning better releases. The release process doesn't need to be extremely heavy, it's "build a tarball and put it out somewhere for people to play with". Or you could upload a snapshot of the stable branch to sid. > > > Given the very low history of regression in Samba 3.6.* release cycle, > > > I think it's a low-risk exception. > > > > > > > One of the main issues would be the size of the diff we need to review, > > hence the suggestion above! > > The size of the diff would be the same. The only difference being that > what I would upload right now (if an RC release existed) would *not* > be reviewed. > But it would get two weeks testing in sid that it's not getting right now. Which means if nothing else it would make us more confident in a decision either way. > Frankly speaking....I would call that just "cheating"..:-). I just > prefer being honest and ask honestly for a freeze exception, in > advance, for what I think will be very low risk. > In which case you're way more likely to get a 'no'. Cheers, Julien
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