On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 07:22:05PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Ideally, i'd like to see debian to branch or use t-p-u, such that sid > can continue accepting new uploads and not freeze. E.g. something > similar to how fedora operates. I vaguely recall that something like > that has been proposed to debian in the past, and didn't get much > traction, since developers can get distracted by continious uploads > instead of working on releasing the frozen part of the archive.
We already have a technical solution to developing for $release+n (n≥2): the DELAYED queue. We just need it to be expanded a little bit and for future releases to have their date pinned long in advance; we can then just upload new versions of packages to (say) DELAYED-700! (This is a joke and my penance will be to fix an RC bug.) -- 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/20130422131217.GA13404@debian
