>>>>> "Graham" == Graham Inggs <gin...@debian.org> writes:
Graham> Hi All Graham> On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 00:33, Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> wrote: Graham> Would it be a bad thing to require all uploads that need to Graham> go through NEW (source and binary) to target experimental? Graham> I have been doing this for my own, and sponsored, uploads Graham> for some years already. Yes. I think Simon and Paul covered this adequately. The biggest concern is cases where something is already in experimental and something comes up for the version in unstable. The only problem with your message is *require*. I think what Paul, Simon and apparently I are asking for is that maintainers be able to explain why they are sending an upload that needs to go through new to unstable in the changelog and have ftpmaster consider whether their reason is good. Also, I'm less convinced there's a good reason for source new uploads to target experimental. If it's a new package with entirely new binary packages, it shouldn't be involved in any transitions. So, I think what we're asking for is a change to process-new to flag binary-new not targeted at experimental and ask for confirmation that the justification in the changelog appears reasonable.