Re: Please respect Freeze Policy
On 2014-12-04 08:46, Bart Martens wrote:
> 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 release team do not have jurisdiction over unstable. Accordingly,
we cannot impose a rule on what you can (or cannot) upload to unstable.
> 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.
>
>> [...]
>
> Regards,
>
> Bart Martens
>
>
Unfortunately, it is equally disruptive when people (despite best
efforts) misjudge the consequences of their upload. In such a case, you
would be depriving your fellow co-Debianites from the opportunity of
getting some patches into testing.
/This/ is why we recommend that people upload new upstream releases
(etc.) to experimental.
~Niels
Pro-tip: If your upload bumps shlib or symbols, it will definitely
become a liability for reverse dependencies.
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