On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 10:42:54AM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le mercredi, 3 décembre 2014, 10.20:32 W. Martin Borgert a écrit : > > Would it be OK to abuse experimental for new upstreams during > > freeze? > > during freezes, where unstable should only have > changes targeted at testing (and therefore, currently, at jessie).
I don't read that in the freeze policy. Do you? https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html The key term about this in the freeze policy is "disruptive". It's up to the package maintainer to judge whether a package update should go to unstable or experimental depending on whether the package update could be disruptive in unstable. > Using > experimental for new upstream versions is not at all an abuse; Yes, the freeze policy suggests to use experimental for for changes that are not suitable for jessie, to avoid disruption in unstable. > it's > exactly the suite one should be targeting for these changes! Again, I don't read that in the freeze policy. Do you? https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html So, to answer W. Martin Borgert's question: Yes, it is OK to use experimental for new upstream releases during the freeze, as mentioned in the freeze policy. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141204074625.gb26...@master.debian.org
