On Jo, 02 oct 14, 11:15:58, The Wanderer wrote: > > If I'm understanding matters correctly, the problem that caused the > current bad situation isn't something that would be addressed by > coordinating releases. It would have to require coordinating migration > from unstable to testing, which AFAIK the maintainers have no control > over; I believe that's controlled entirely by the FTP masters. Actually that's controlled by Britney, which receives "hints" from the Release Team. > If there's any decent way to express a requirement that one migration > depend on another, aside from package dependencies of a sort which are > ruled out in this case by the need to allow other things, I'm not aware > of it offhand. I'm fairly sure someone will point out something that > will seem obvious in hindsight... I guess in theory the Release Team could provide the relevant hints to Britney to migrate some "unrelated"[1] packages together, but I'm sure they have enough on their hands with large groups of packages that do depend on each other (usually library transitions). [1] in this particular case not depending on each other, even though there is a relation We are only about a month away from freeze (5th of November), but then people will start complaining that no new package versions are coming in... oh well. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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