On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:44:40AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:43:25PM +0200, Alexandre Rossi wrote: > > Geert Stappers: > > > > > > Why the request for uploading to 'experimental'? > > > > With my understanding of the freeze policy, for a package that is in > > testing, one should upload to unstable only version fixing RC bugs. > > Although the release is near, I'm sticking to the rules. > > Good to know: > * What is uploaded to experimental, stays in experimental. > * There is no automatic "elevation" from experimental to unstable. > * What is uploaded to unstable elevates to testing, > but not during a freeze. The freeze block prevents it. > * To get elevation from unstable to testing during freeze > starts with a unblock request. > * A valid reason for honouring a unblock request > is a fix for a release critical bug. > * What in testing is elavates into stable (at "release"). > * Uploads to experimental don't close bugs, uploads to unstable do. > > Upload to experimental done. >
The automatic email from FTP-masters has | Format: 1.8 | Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 07:19:27 +0200 | Source: davmail | Binary: davmail | Architecture: source all | Version: 4.8.0.2479-1 | Distribution: unstable | Urgency: low | Maintainer: Alexandre Rossi <alexandre.ro...@gmail.com> | Changed-By: Alexandre Rossi <alexandre.ro...@gmail.com> | Description: | davmail - POP/IMAP/SMTP/CalDav/LDAP to Microsoft Exchange gateway | Closes: 859787 863849 | Changes: | davmail (4.8.0.2479-1) experimental; urgency=low | . | * New upstream version (Closes: #859787) | * Refresh patches | * Drop javamail compatibility patch (fixed upstream) | * Depend on headless JRE (Closes: #863849) Seems like I did an accidental upload to unstable. My plan was to upload to experimental as Alexandre requested. Sorry. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
