Hi, On Tue, 02 Nov 2010, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Please note that we see your arguments and agree completely, but please > also note it's not as easy as it sounds. IIRC recently PostgreSQL 9.x > was accepted, resulting in some packages not being able to migrate to > testing. > > I think there's has already been the case, that a ABI breaking library > was accepted to experimental (hey, it was only experimental, was it?), > and later uploaded by the maintainer to unstable, leading to unpleasant > results as well. (Granted, not during this freeze.) > > So, I can choose between helping the release by trying to fix some RC > bugs, or getting kicked by the release team for accepting $package, I > usually choose the former ;)
OK, that's a reason to avoid package churn in existing source packages and thus letting packages with new binaries sit in NEW for a while. It doesn't apply to entirely new packages however. Thanks for your answer and for clearing up the ambiguities. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer ◈ [Flattr=20693] Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- 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/20101102140218.gb31...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
