On Saturday, May 02, 2015 08:41:41 AM Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:02:58AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > - during the freeze, uploads to unstable that bump sonames should be > > > held > > > > > > for RM review (or that will otherwise prevent new uploads of other > > > packages > > > to unstable from being suitable for promotion to testing) > > > > The soname stuff, going through NEW, is partly done manually by the > > ftpteam already. > > As far as I remember the discussion was not triggered on a soname bump > but rather on a bump on the version of r-base which requires all its > rdepends to build against this. I have no idea how you want to flag > bumps like these automatically.
That's my recollection as well. This particular package has (IIRC) bitten us in two cycles now with arguments between the maintainer and others about what was appropriate. It might be a sufficient solution to this issue to make it clear in policy that during freeze, it's not appropriate to upload packages to unstable that will prevent reverse build-depends from being built in unstable and migrating to testing. I think if the rules of the road were unambiguous, this particular problem could be solved. Scott K -- 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/1944994.iGRr9tBrJS@kitterma-e6430
