Hi Graham, Am Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 02:57:01PM -0100 schrieb Graham Inggs: > Hi Andreas > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2023 at 04:33, Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> wrote: > > Can you confirm that packages uploaded to experimental can be moved in > > one rush from experimental to unstable without extra uploads? > > I don't think this has ever been possible. The packages would need to > be uploaded again to unstable, presumably at the appropriate > dependency level in the transition.
Sorry, my question was probably confusing. I was not talking about the new packages. I was talking about the 170 r-bioc-* packages. If I upload these to experimental, will it be necessary to upload these to unstable again or can these be moved to unstable in one rush. Also interesting in this connection: Will the tracker display the levels of packages uploaded to experimental? > Seeing these packages would be NEW, even if they were initially > uploaded directly to unstable, they would likely still require > source-only uploads for migration anyway. I'm comfortable with doing source-only uploads of packages that have passed NEW. I'm not comfortable with uploading 170 packages twice - once to experimmental and once again to unstable. Given that all this work has mainly ended up on my shoulders I would prefer to upload directly to unstable and simply bear with the waiting time in NEW. > > Do you > > have this process in mind after the moreinfo tag is removed? > > No, after the NEW packages have cleared NEW and the moreinfo tag is > removed, we'll consider a slot for the transition. But you just mentioned the tracker in your previous mail[1]. > We would like to > avoid stalling the transition with multiple packages going through > NEW, and putting pressure on FTP Masters by telling them a package is > needed for a transition is not nice either. I admit I personally see the bigger drawback on spending my time twice on 170 packages than waiting for new packages. Please explain (again) the real drawback of a transition that was delayed due to waiting for new packages in total by estimated (not verified) by about two weeks. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/r-api-bioc-3.18.html -- http://fam-tille.de
