Re: Doubt about the release-fitness of a package (gfax)

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Friday 14 November 2014 09:38:42 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 14 nov 14, 08:39:57, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > I have hit a failure in my understanding of the freeze process and would
> > be grateful if someone could explain it to me.
> >
> > If gfax in Sid is not fit for release, why does this have any effect on
> > Jessie which is frozen, which I thought basically means that nothing new
> > can come up from Sid?  This is what I have obviously got wrong.
>
> Nothing wrong with your understanding, it's just that it already is in
> testing (and stable) at the same version as sid.
>
> $ LANG=C apt list gfax
> Listing... Done
> gfax/testing,unstable,stable 0.7.7+ds-2 all
>
> Unless the Release Team removes it from testing (which may still happen
> in case of RC bugs) it will be released as such.

Thanks Jonathan and Andrei.  One day I'll actually understand Debian. If I 
live long enough. ;-)

Lisi