Andreas Barth wrote: > * Luk Claes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [071231 12:29]: >> Andreas Barth wrote: >>> * Luk Claes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [071231 10:46]: >>>> It's technically possible to stage etch.5 via proposed-updates and >>>> release it as a point release without interfering much with the >>>> possibility to do point releases without the etch.5 specific packages. >>>> Though personally I would only want to do it this way if we communicate >>>> very clearly in a wide range of media that we will be doing something >>>> like an etch.5 so that users are not more confused than they are now >>>> when there is a point release and know very well in advance if they >>>> want/should be using etch.5 or not. >>> I don't get the second half, what should that tell to us? >> That we don't want to reply to confused users for a whole month when we >> release etch.5, that it's much better to have informed users beforehand... > > Yes, of course. We need to say "ok, we're doing this and that and do it > via p-u" - but we should do this anyways, so I don't see a difference. :)
If people get package in a point release that are not coming from DSAs, some of them already freak out. If they find out that it are packages noone needs for upgrading anyway, they'll be pissed off even more. So to avoid these and all the trouble we'll get from it including bad publicity all over, I want that the concept of etch.5 is communicated to the wide public beforehand so users are well informed and don't need to find out for themselves or read debian-announce for that matter to know about it. Cheers Luk -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
