Let's say it takes one week for a package to make it from unstable to testing. So what happens if package foo_1.0-1.deb is in testing and foo_1.0-2.deb is uploaded and then after five days foo_1.0-3.deb is uploaded to unstable. What happens if no grave bug exists againts foo? Is 1.0-2 moved to testing after 7 days, or is 1.0-3 moved or do the seven days start anew with the upload of 1.0-3? The latter holds if there was a grave bug in 1.0-1.
If it is also true with no grave bug, we should encourage developers to wait a week between two uploads or else their software won't make it into testing. I switched my system from unstable to testing and after several weeks I still have packages installed that are not available in testing and I wouldn't be suprised if the maintainers didn't even notice that. For instance webmin does not seem to have a release critical bug but it's not in testing at all. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael@Fam-Meskes.De Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!
