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No new packages into Sarge? [was: Re: Release update]
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| Martin Pitt 2004-03-29, 3:36 pm |
| (ignoring the m-f-t to d-d-announce...)
Hi Colin, hi DDs!
On 2004-03-29 15:40 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> It's been a little longer than it should have been since the last one.
> Sorry. This is a not-terribly-formal update to get some news out despite
> the members of the release team being somewhat snowed under with other
> things at the moment.
Thank you for this announcement. It is good to hear that something is
done about freezing and all that :-)
> * Where possible, avoid new major upstream versions of other packages.
> If in any doubt about whether an upgrade is appropriate, contact the
> release team.
Does that include that from a certain point on no new packages are
allowed to flow into testing? IMHO this would be a good thing.
Thanks and have a nice day!
Martin
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Martin Pitt Debian GNU/Linux Developer
martin@piware.de mpitt@debian.org
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| Steve Langasek 2004-03-29, 4:35 pm |
| On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:02:03PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> On 2004-03-29 15:40 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
[color=darkred]
> Thank you for this announcement. It is good to hear that something is
> done about freezing and all that :-)
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> Does that include that from a certain point on no new packages are
> allowed to flow into testing? IMHO this would be a good thing.
The policy is intended to avoid disruption of packages already in sarge.
New packages have only a minimal impact on the releasability of the
system, and can easily be removed again if they turn out to be buggy, so
I don't think there's any reason to formally restrict the flow of new
packages into testing until we actually freeze.
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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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