On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:14:42PM +0100, Robert Lemmen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:51:16PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Given that each soname change requires a package name change, and every > > package name change requires a manual override by an ftpmaster, yes, > > it's theoretically possible to "automate" the process of not approving > > new package uploads during a given stage of the release process. > > perhaps a soname change should not be considered a "real" package name > change and be accepted automatically?
I think you're missing the point: package name changes due to soname changes often cause delays to testing, and therefore it's *beneficial* that there's potentially an easy way to hold them out of unstable at the moment. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
