Re: Handling unblocks

2013-04-02 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 02/04/13 18:35, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 04/02/2013 07:52 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> The problem is, how to pass this benefit on to users without either (a) >> marking every bug RC > There is absolutely no point doing that. Unless we are really > really close from releasing (like right now)

Re: Handling unblocks

2013-04-02 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 02/04/13 14:00, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Daniel Pocock (02/04/2013): >> To put this in context, I recently found that one of the packages I >> depend on (libasio-dev) is actually orphaned. It is mentioned in >> PTS, but I was never proactively alerted by anything such as >> lintian. There are

Re: Handling unblocks

2013-04-02 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/02/2013 07:52 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > The problem is, how to pass this benefit on to users without either (a) > marking every bug RC There is absolutely no point doing that. Unless we are really really close from releasing (like right now), even non-RC bugs can be unblocked during the free

Re: Handling unblocks

2013-04-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Adam, On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 01:32:50PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 02.04.2013 08:24, Andreas Tille wrote: > >The only thing I'm wondering about is: Will all unblock requests be > >handled before the release (either by an unblock or a refusal)? > > That's the plan, yes. As Neil said, w

Re: Handling unblocks

2013-04-02 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 02.04.2013 08:24, Andreas Tille wrote: The only thing I'm wondering about is: Will all unblock requests be handled before the release (either by an unblock or a refusal)? That's the plan, yes. As Neil said, we've unfortunately not been as good as we should have been at saying "no" (we don't

Re: Handling unblocks

2013-04-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Daniel Pocock (02/04/2013): > To put this in context, I recently found that one of the packages I > depend on (libasio-dev) is actually orphaned. It is mentioned in > PTS, but I was never proactively alerted by anything such as > lintian. There are probably many cases like this (orphaned library

Re: Handling unblocks

2013-04-02 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 02/04/13 09:24, Andreas Tille wrote: > [moving to debian-devel as Neil suggested] > > On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 04:52:30PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: >> As a general hint, requests that are "obviously correct" get approved >> very quicky. > I can confirm this - thanks for the release team. > >> T

Handling unblocks

2013-04-02 Thread Andreas Tille
[moving to debian-devel as Neil suggested] On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 04:52:30PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > As a general hint, requests that are "obviously correct" get approved > very quicky. I can confirm this - thanks for the release team. > Things that are "obviously wrong" get rejected v