I think we need to set guidelines for how we want to handle Debian GNOME uploads now that we entered Hard Freeze.
Sometimes it is useful to upload packages to experimental that are intended for upload to unstable soon. For instance: gtk4. By uploading to experimental first, we can verify that the package builds on all release architectures and that triggered autopkgtests are passing on amd64 & arm64. Most of our packages are either key packages or do not have non-trivial autopkgtest so they would need someone to file an unblock request and the Release Team approve it in order for any uploads from now on to be eligible for migration to Testing. I suggest that we don't do any uploads for the GNOME team packages to Unstable **or** Experimental unless we intend to file an unblock request for them. Ubuntu uploads can be made directly to an ubuntu/questing branch (this is my suggestion for packages that are already in sync since Trixie should be released before the Ubuntu 26.04 development cycle gets very far) or an ubuntu/latest branch and then we can easily upload to Debian directly once Trixie is released. What do the rest of you think? Is it too conservative to avoid experimental for all packages? Or is it nicer to have a simpler guideline? References ----- - https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html#hard - https://release.debian.org/britney/pseudo-excuses-experimental.html Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
