Of course I am all in for taking the fast lane in particular if this is already common practice. So what I'll do is to discuss this with the Crosswire packaging team if they can give me the approval to go ahead in the way you describe. I really want to have the team's consent in this, just now, in the circumstances. Thanks, Jeremy!
On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 15:52 Jeremy Bicha <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 9:43 AM Teus Benschop <[email protected]> > wrote: > > You are right that the way you say (upload to unstable / ask binNMUs) > would be the fast track to success. > > But within the Crosswire packaging team, I was asked to do this one > through an auto transition. > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions > > And that route is a bit longer. > > But it plays by the book. And I already botched my DD application by not > following the rules. > > So while I agree with you about the faster way to do this, I can't > afford to not follow the book this time :) > > Since there are only 2 affected packages, both owned by the Crosswire > team, it's common practice to *not* need a transition bug and advance > approval from the Release Team. > > But I'm not a Release Team member, so why don't you just ask them? :) > > Jeremy > -- Teus Benschop [email protected] 0318 712046
