Re: freeze and texlive-bin package

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 01:02:48PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all!
> >
> > What do we do with texlive-bin and the etch freeze? The -6 in unstable
> > carries some quite useful stuff ...
> 
> I think we should try to convince the release team to let it in - after
> all, the pdftex patch is the same that is already in etch and fixed a RC
> bug there, it's not RC in texlive only because no package FTBFS because
> of it.
> 
> I guess we should wait until the package is old enough so that it would
> migrate by itself, if there was no freeze.  The same (i.e., wait) we
> should do with the tetex packages. 
> 
> texlive-bin needs 8 days
> tetex-bin   needs 7 days
> tetex-base  needs 11 days (upload under way)
> tex-common  needs 11 days (upload due today)
> 
> So maybe we should send a mail to -release next week on tuesday, asking
> for the -bin packages to be included, and one more a couple of days
> later. 
> 
> Or am I wrong in assuming that the "n-days old" rule still holds for
> hinted testing migration?

I wouldn't wait that long; let them know the score earlier rather than
later, so if there's a problem, we can deal with it sooner rather than
later.

   Julian