Christian Seiler <christ...@iwakd.de> writes: > Why? Any package currently in testing still has time to enter > (until roughly end of this year), so it's not like there is no > heads-up for people. And RC bugs don't lead to immediate > removal from testing, you still have quite a bit of time until > they actually cause removal of a package.
The problem is if the maintainer is not responding to RC bug reports, and you don't realize a package you depend on has RC bugs. This happened several times to me during the last freeze. -- Brian May <b...@debian.org>