Re: unstable/experimental freeze policy

2014-12-16 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
On 15/12/2014 11:30, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Sascha, Hi Andreas, [...] I think by waiting a certain time to see whether some QA tools have run once or twice which is probably in a one month time frame. Oh, I didn't know these tools also run on experimental. In this case I completely agree!

Re: unstable/experimental freeze policy

2014-12-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Sascha, On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 09:40:48AM +, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: On 15/12/2014 11:30, Andreas Tille wrote: Well, this is a misunderstanding. The QA tools are running on testing and unstable and I would wait a bit to be sure that several runs will not show anything problematic.

Re: unstable/experimental freeze policy

2014-12-16 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Hi Andreas, On 16/12/2014 10:08, Andreas Tille wrote: We need to make sure that the *release* has no bugs. If you later upload to unstable and a bug occures you can fix the bug in unstable as usual. But if you have upload to unstable an later a bug in testing is detected you run into

Re: unstable/experimental freeze policy

2014-12-15 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Hi Andreas, I have just uploaded a new version of a package (new GenomeTools upstream version) to experimental [...] do you see much in the way of uploading this package to unstable as well? You always need to outweight policy with sane reasons / common sense. If you think GenomeTools and

Re: unstable/experimental freeze policy

2014-12-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Sascha, On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:01:26AM +, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: You always need to outweight policy with sane reasons / common sense. If you think GenomeTools and its dependencies will pretty surely not feature any RC bug we will probably not need to keep new versions out of

unstable/experimental freeze policy

2014-12-13 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Hi all, I have a question regarding the jessie freeze policy. In the policy document (https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html) it says that one should keep disruptive changes out of unstable and continue making use of experimental for changes that are not suitable for jessie. I have

Re: unstable/experimental freeze policy

2014-12-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Sascha, On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:36:19AM +, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: I have a question regarding the jessie freeze policy. In the policy document (https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html) it says that one should keep disruptive changes out of unstable and continue making