On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:28:29PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > This is a fallacy. In the past, when we did freeze unstable, > it never forced me to do anything but twidle my thumbs for months > until things got moving again. The reason that freezing unstable did > not make me fix any more bugs, since the bugs were not in packages I > was in any way an expert in. > > Freezes just used to be a frustrating, prolonged period in > which I did no Debian work at all, waiting for unstable to thaw back > out.
And why not, instead of freezing unstable, make it build against testing, when er try to freeze testing ? Okay, that's what t-p-u is roughly for, but the fact is that it's quite painful. Mike