On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Svante Signell wrote:
It seems like many DMs package new releases/fixes bugs closer to the release than attending to that now. Of course it is a time/resource issue, but anyway. Why not package pre-releases in experimental, to squeeze bugs out before the new upstream release comes out?
And what makes you assume that?
Doing that will make the release of wheezy much smoother than trying to fix things in the last minute (and risk that the packages gets excluded from wheezy??)
Given that the current state is to freeze the archive in about two months[1] the "finalizing" part should already be ongoing as we speak.
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