On 11/27/18 12:38 PM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > 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.
The process would stay the same, just instead of uploading to unstable during the freeze, we would upload to t-p-u. > - Harder to get users for test with testing-proposed-updates repository Nothing would prevent one from uploading to both t-p-u and sid. I very much support this proposal, but we're probably too close from the freeze already, and this would probably also need some work on the release team and/or FTP master side. If you want this to happen, maybe you should get in touch with both teams directly and do the work *after* buster is released? Anyway, they would tell... Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
