On 0, "Barak A. Pearlmutter" <ba...@cs.nuim.ie> wrote: > [...] >
Please don't misunderstand Julien's answer. Our goal is not hold down any action/updates/fixes/$whatever but to make sure that we release a set of well tested packages. In our last mail to d-d-a, we asked maintainers to explain why they think $pkg/$ver should be part of Squeeze and we clearly explained the criterias that we will consider while reviewing the diff. Your mail failed to explain that (at least, imho) and it's not reasonable to ask for a review for a 3000 lines patch during a freeze. You might argue that an earlier upload would have allowed fossil to get an automatic freeze exception and it would be fair. But, this is not the case here since it was almost 5 days later. And even if you have uploaded just after the freeze announcement, it would have been just bad luck and it could happen even if the freeze was announced since ages. If you can explain clearly how this update can enhance Squeeze's quality, then please do. Besides: 1) "it has been done before and it didn't hurt the release" is not an argument. We can review our rules/practices and change them if it's a good idea for the release. 2) "it's a leaf package, it won't hurt anyting" is not an argument neither. We have the same quality expectations for leaf packages and packages with lots of reverse dependencies. Note that sqlite3 wasn't freeze-exception'ed automatically. We have discussed the decision: 1) We had a transition running and some involved packages caught the new dependency of sqlite3 2) Some other packages caught the new dependency, 3) There were no ABI breakage. It was then easier to let sqlite3 get in than revert the upload and rebuild newly built packages. I really hope that you understand better our position and the decisions we make now. Regards, -- Mehdi Dogguy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100811173415.ga20...@dogguy.org
