On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 18:32:28 +0800 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: Rather a critical element has been snipped there, Paul, sadly.
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 15:42:07 +0000, Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote: > Given the latter half of our >freeze tends to involve mostly frustration, fragmentation of developers >and very few bug fixes, I am personally one of the people, who would >like to see Debian have shorter freezes[1]. > On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 1:41 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > > > Yes, I have heard your (it was you, wasn't it) talk in Heidelberg. I > > took with me that you plan to adopt a "once you're out of testing, > > you're out of stable for the next release, unless you're really > > really important" policy for stretch, which has put me in deep > > worry. > > Packages often get autoremoved from testing and then go back in > quickly once they are fixed, so I'm not sure that is correct. So this phrase: [during the latter half of our freeze] > > "once you're out of testing, > > you're out of stable for the next release, unless you're really > > really important" *is* correct *if* the original prefix is retained - and it shouldn't overly worry any developers. It's a necessary step to actually getting a release. However, this is so far off-topic now that it is pointless to continue. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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