On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:42:57PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Well my point is that disallowing "stable unstable" doesn't solve those > problems for most packages, as "stable unstable" uploads are rare to start > with. And for packages which don't have these problems, this incurs > significant overhead on the part of the maintainer.
There are indeed some packages were it doesn't matter where you build it, and where the interfaces don't change between Debian revisions. I think the cases are few, but there is no need to burden the maintainers in those cases, even when Bens proposal gets accepted. I suggest for these cases that the upload is done for unstable (only), and a bug report is filed against ftp.debian.org or some other suitable virtual package (for example "stable-releases"), requesting inclusion into stable. This is not a lot of work. The release manager needs to look at this place of course, instead in the upload queue. It's just a matter of how to communicate it to the release manager. Do you think this is a workable compromise? Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
