On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 00:24 +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Adam (2013.05.22_23:21:49_+0200) > > What's the real-world impact of the dates being wrong in wheezy for > > another few weeks? (i.e. the rationale for stable-updates rather than > > just waiting for 7.1 to be released.) > > Mostly just developer tools won't do the right thing when given a > codename alias (like unstable). And when working on Ubuntu packages, > tools that won't know the name of the development release. > So small impact, and only on developers.
I assume unstable was only an example of a codename here, as the diff doesn't look like it would affect parsing of "unstable" (unless I'm missing something). Hmmm. Data-only packages certainly make sense for stable-updates, it's just a question of whether they all do. While we ponder that, please feel free to go ahead with the upload, as per my earlier mail. Regards, Adam -- 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/1369564732.18864.53.ca...@jacala.jungle.funky-badger.org
