On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:19:45PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 04 mai 2011 à 22:12 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > While I like the idea in general, I think that it should also be > > possible to upload packages directly to rolling (through > > rolling-proposed-updates). It will be useful in cases where neither the > > package in testing, not the package in unstable, can be used to fix a > > problem in rolling. > > Adding this possibility is opening Pandora’s box. Once you allow this, > people start using packages that are neither in unstable nor in testing, > and they don’t help us working on our packages at all. This also adds an > extra burden on maintainers who want to use this feature. > > Could you please give a concrete example of where this would be needed? > I think all existing cases should be covered by uploading directly to > either t-p-u or unstable.
Agreed, the entry point for rolling is clearly just unstable + a force hint. Why would you need to upload something to rolling that you couldn't make enter through unstable? -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madco...@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110504202329.ga20...@madism.org
