On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 03:09:30AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > 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?
That should be possible for the ftp-admins to do given the pgsql database interface. However, I would like them to comment on how much of a burden they think it is. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
