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Re: transition to new policy of other packages / transitional packages



Tollef Fog Heen escreveu isso aí:
> ]] Antonio Terceiro 
> 
> > The problem with making non-transitioned packages NMU-able is that the
> > transition is quite invasive for each package. I've added a ack for that
> > in the draft.
> 
> What's the other alternatives?  Removing the package isn't less
> invasive.  Blocking transition to testing is slightly less invasive, but
> we don't want to end up with packages that languish in unstable forever
> either.  Doing nothing is less invasive, but does not get us to where we
> want to be. :-)

Sure. It just feels like transitioning a Ruby package looks much more
like hijacking it than with doing an NMU. :-)

I am absolutely *not* arguing in favor of doing nothing!

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>

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