Raphael Hertzog a écrit : >>> Preparing the transition in experimental is not always done and takes >>> much more energy than such a system would take. >> Why, actually? > > I don't an exhaustive answer but here are some points: > 1/ you can't request bin-nmus of reverse-dependencies in experimental > (to verify that all packages build fine with the updated package, and > that's one of the main task in preparing the transition) > 2/ you have to manually reupload a new source package to unstable with all > the delay it induces for getting the package built on all arches
Besides, you might have to version build-dependencies so that they are taken from experimental. Worse, you might have to expand all transitive build-dependencies and version them so that they are taken from experimental (sbuild prefers to fail instead of installing from experimental unless the versioned build-dependency is explicit). This is too impractical with OCaml, for example: it is impossible to make a transition in experimental without an insane amount of work, whereas recompiling all involved packages takes only a few hours (on amd64). > 3/ some maintainers are too confident that nothing is going to break And even if they do tests, they cannot do them on all architectures. Cheers, -- Stéphane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bad3ec1.7020...@glondu.net
