Marc Haber: > On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 19:45:02 +0100, gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> > wrote: >> I don't quite understand where all this fuzz about auto-removals >> suddenly comes from. The auto-removals exist since Septemer 2013 [0] >> and they were also in place for the jessie freeze [1], with the small >> difference that now the point-of-no-return is a month before the hard >> freeze, and in jessie it started with the hard freeze. > > If the jessie release actually had a point-of-no-return, then it was > this seldomly and/or silently enforced that I totally missed it. > > I don't have anything against autoremovals, I am strongly opposed > against the "once you're out, you'll stay out" since I fail to see the > advantages of this approach aside from "giving incentives". > > For me, this "incentive" will most likely have the opposite result. > > Greetings > Marc, who is about to stop caring just a bit more >
It was listed in at least two d-d-a mails: * https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/02/msg00000.html * https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/09/msg00002.html Plus the jessie freeze policy; * https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html If you feel we could be more vocal with our announcements, please do not hesitate to let us know. These days we /also/ have a [release calendar] now that you can import, so you can see the deadlines in your favourite calendar. I admit, we did not have that for Jessie - but hopefully it will help people for stretch. Thanks, ~Niels [release calendar] http://release.debian.org/release-calendar.ics