Hi, Well, we use experimental as "shelter" during freeze, but it's not good in my point of view.
- During freeze, it is just ignored by most of the users since they wouldn't know there's a newer package in there (and they also afraid because it's in "experimental" ;). It means "not tested" if they were in Debian repository for a long time period - Re-uploading to unstable is just boring, and no values are added by it - unstable users wants new valued packages constantly. After release, "package flood" to unstable is not good. So, I guess putting fixed packages into "testing-proposed-updates" and to continue to upload packages to unstable during freeze period is better. Pros) - unstable distribution stays newest - No "unintended" changes will be introduced into testing during freeze Cons) - Maybe you should do cherry-picking changes from unstable to testing-proposed-updates, not just ask "unblock" to Release Managers. - Harder to get users for test with testing-proposed-updates repository Your thoughts? -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.org/iijmio-mail.jp
