On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:33:46PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 31 March 2013 at 18:18, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > | Aside from the lack of pre-discussion, co-ordination etc., the last few > | weeks of a freeze _really_ isn't the right time to be starting a large > | (or indeed small) transition in unstable. We now have at least 87 (based > | on this morning's britney run) packages which won't be able to receive > | updates via unstable should they turn out to have lately discovered RC > | bugs. If any of those packages are then involved in dependency chains, > | the same could be true of packages outside of the R module packages. > > In the grand scheme of things, R is a rather peripheral package.
A peripheral package can still cause extra work for the release team. > Please just put a "block" on r-base-core to prevent it from migrating to > testing. All these dependencies will be held too. The freeze already guarantees the these new R packages won't be entering wheezy. That is not the problem. The problem is that since you uploaded, to unstable, packages that cannot enter wheezy, any bug fixes _in_wheezy_ now have to go via testing-proposed-uploads, which is more work for everyone, including the release team. Because of the complicated dependencies between packages in Debian, this then cause _other_ packages to suffer the same fate. This is not a new thing, and it has been said repeatedly by the release team on debian-devel-announce. > I cannot influence the R release cycle which happens within our freeze. As > have a few previous R releases, and none of those created any trouble. You can, however, avoid uploading the new R packages to Debian unstable during a Debian release freeze, and you should have done so. You could have uploaded them to experimental instead. This would have avoided all the potential problems for the Debian release process. -- http://www.cafepress.com/trunktees -- geeky funny T-shirts http://gtdfh.branchable.com/ -- GTD for hackers -- 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/20130331175510.gh4...@havelock.liw.fi
