On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 07:48:19PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 06:36:22PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > This might be nitpicking (sorry if it is), but I could not find the > > answer in google. > > > > I think it is a bad idea to allow packages to migrate to testing > > automatically. Sometimes a maintainer might want the packages to stay > > in unstable than in testing. A particular package might call for more > > attention from Sid users to expose its bugs... > > > > My personal opinion is that a package should migrate only upon the > > consent of the maintainer. > > > > Adv:- > > 1) Testing will probably have less RC bugs than there are currently > > have -> improved stability in testing -> less work for the bug > > squashing party -> less release cycle. > > 2) Maintainers make better choices and they know when the package is > > ready for "testing". > > 3) Gives the users of sid sufficient time to find a bug and report it. > > > > Dis adv:- > > 1) Updates to testing might be slower. > > > > What do others think? > > > > raju > > > > The rules for moving packages from unstable to testing are described in > the debian developers reference (manual) section 5.13.2. I have not found > a rational for this rule set, but my impression is that Debian tries to > automate that which can be automated, but with controls and escapes. > > A maintainer has the option of selecting an urgency level of high, > medium, or low, which hold the upload in unstable for 2, 5, or 10 days > respectively. I presume that a maintainer can fold into his decision > his own sense of how confident he is that the upload does not > introduce a subtle bug. Thus he might downgrade the urgency of a bug > fix if he feels maybe it needs some extra testing, even if it > addressing a rather critical security problem. But maybe not. Maybe a > bunch of broken systems is better than a bunch of compromised > systems. But this is just my speculation. I don't know the rational > that drove the Debian decision. > > -- > Paul E Condon > pecondon@mesanetworks.net Hi folks, I have done some research on the Debian process. One factor is the urgency level as Paul said. But there is a Debian script that takes more factors into consideration: Britney. I have not read the source for this but it is available to inspect. you can checkout my new diagram (I moved it to a new location) for any comments or questions. It's not complete but I'm working on it. http://debian.home.pipeline.com/newdebian.png Cheers, Kev -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! (__) (oo) /------\/ / | || * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ ...."Have you mooed today?"...
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