On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 12:44:46PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > during the last days, I had the chance to consider a bit about the > situation of packages that are held up from getting a current version > into sarge because they dropped support for an arch, but that arch is > not removed by the ftp-masters. Currently, these packages don't go > into sarge. However, I personally would prefer to allow these package > to enter sarge soon, because that would give us more time to detect > any bugs in relation with other packages in sarge (even though the > optimal solution would of course be if a ftp-master would drop the > binaries from sid, instead of a release manager to force packages > through).
The problem in the general case is that someone needs to make a decision whether out-of-date binaries for a package should be removed, or if they represent buginess in the newest package that should be fixed before it's allowed into a release. I'm not keen on making these decisions without the imprimatur of the ftpmasters. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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