Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Dear FTP masters,
could dinstall be run more frequently, for example every hour?
Currently dinstall is run only once every 6 hours. This means that many
operations are blocked for a long time. For instance uploading a -2
version after a package has cleared the NEW queue.
Such long delays tend to ruin the development flow, especially of
volunteers that happen to have just a couple of hours at their disposal.
This is a well known source of frustration [1].
[1]
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-winding-down/#old-infrastructure-package-uploads
Given that a dinstall run generally takes only few minutes, it should be
feasible to run dinstall at least hourly.
Regards,
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Gioele Barabucci