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Bug#855811: marked as done (release.debian.org: release.d.o WWW should explicitly recommend against uploading to sid during the freeze)

Your message dated Fri, 15 Mar 2019 20:16:29 +0100
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and subject line Re: release.debian.org: release.d.o WWW should explicitly recommend against uploading to sid during the freeze
has caused the Debian Bug report #855811,
regarding release.debian.org: release.d.o WWW should explicitly recommend against uploading to sid during the freeze
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Package: release.debian.org
Severity: wishlist

Dear release team,

release.d.o WWW says

    If you are unable to bring your fix through unstable, for example
    because there are unrelated changes already uploaded there, the
    release team can grant you permission to use the
    testing-proposed-updates mechanism.

It is possible to infer from this that one should not upload anything to
unstable unless it is a targeted fix for a bug in testing.  However, one
might not make this inference before making an upload of, say, a new
upstream version.  DDs make this mistake from time-to-time.

In my own case, I was only aware of the release team's recommendation to
use experimental because I watched the release team's presentation at
debconf17.  So far as I can tell, this recommendation is not documented
anywhere, nor stated in any recent editions of "Bits from the Release
Team".

I'd like to suggest that this recommendation be stated explicitly on the
release team's website, to reduce the number of blocking uploads to
unstable made during the freeze.

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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Sean Whitton

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Hi,

On 14-03-2019 22:54, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Thu 14 Mar 2019 at 07:48PM +01, Paul Gevers wrote:
> 
>> I the attached patch what you are looking for?
> 
> Yes, thank you, although I would wordsmith it as follows (take it or
> leave it as you like):

Well, that's exactly why I asked... :)

Paul

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