On Thu, 10 May 2018, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 08:27:32PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > It would be nice to move away from using RC bugs as testing blockers, > > but instead declare a source package as not suitable for stable (e.g. > > in some meta data on ftp-master or in whatever tooling involved) and > > then have a mechanism to yank all those packages out of testing once > > we've entered a freeze. > > Interesting idea. Do we then not consider testing to be the proving > ground for the next stable release, until freeze time?
While I can understand that dropping packages can have some effect on other (remaining) packages, the packages we are speaking of are usually leaf-packages or part of a relatively self-contained dependency tree. So the consequences of dropping them are low. > Do you think this would result in longer freezes, or not? I don't think so. Removal of packages doesn't tend to uncover many bugs. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: https://debian-handbook.info/get/