Re: On the (ab)use of the Urgency field
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
[...]
> On previous occasions the release team have said that the freeze would
> be applied with respect to the /upload/ date, rather than the
> /migration/ date. Ie, packages uploaded before the freeze might
> migrate afterwards unhindered, provided the other usual criteria were
> satisfied.
> Is this still the case ? If so then this kind of abuse of the Urgency
> field is not just inappropriate but also pointless.
> It would be nice if some of this kind of thing were documented in the
> Developers' Reference or perhaps on the RM webpages.
Hello,
I thought this part of the announcement
| Any packages in unstable before the 19:52 dinstall begins on that day
| will be given automatic freeze exceptions (for the specific version in
| unstable).
spelled out as explicitely as possible that the procedure you are
refering to is being applied again.
cu andreas
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