Thorsten Alteholz writes ("Re: Thanks to ftpmasters for being so responsive"): > On Mon, 26 Dec 2016, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > This was problematic for me. (upstream) Development doesn't stop when > > then next stable freeze. > > If everybody agrees that > - new versions of packages shall be only uploaded to experimental > - uploads to testing will only be done on request of the RT or with > really new packages > - everything else can be rejected > processing would be much easier and the fun could go on.
Certainly I wouldn't upload an update to sid that I didn't intend for what-is-currently-testing, even during the deep freeze. And obviously any upload to sid, intended for testing, would only make sense if I expected it to migrate, according to whatever applicable freeze policies. During the deep freeze that would often involve release@ approval. (An obvious exception is that I wouldn't usually seek release@ preapproval for a properly minimal RC bugfix upload, whether NMU or otherwise, but that's not what we're talking about here.) Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.