Re: Packaging of new upstream (pre-)releases until wheezy

2012-04-14 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Neil Williams writes: > unstable > gets priority as far as the buildd network is concerned. While that's true, a sample package (priority optional) I've uploaded to experimental today has been building on half the debian architectures in less than half an hour and now, after 7h is only mis

Re: Packaging of new upstream (pre-)releases until wheezy

2012-04-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:49:06 +0200 Svante Signell wrote: > On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 21:40 +0200, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > > It seems > > > like many DMs package new releases/fixes bugs closer to the release than > > > attending to that now

Re: Packaging of new upstream (pre-)releases until wheezy

2012-04-14 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 21:40 +0200, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Svante Signell wrote: > > > It seems > > like many DMs package new releases/fixes bugs closer to the release than > > attending to that now. Of course it is a time/resource issue, but > > anyway. Why not packag

Re: Packaging of new upstream (pre-)releases until wheezy

2012-04-14 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:36:13 +0200 > Svante Signell wrote: >> Doing that will make the >> release of wheezy much smoother than trying to fix things in the last >> minute (and risk that the packages gets excluded from wheezy??) > > Definitely

Re: Packaging of new upstream (pre-)releases until wheezy

2012-04-14 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Svante Signell wrote: It seems like many DMs package new releases/fixes bugs closer to the release than attending to that now. Of course it is a time/resource issue, but anyway. Why not package pre-releases in experimental, to squeeze bugs out before the new upstream release

Re: Packaging of new upstream (pre-)releases until wheezy

2012-04-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:36:13 +0200 Svante Signell wrote: > A question about packaging of some upstream (pre-)releases. It seems > like many DMs package new releases/fixes bugs closer to the release than > attending to that now. ... which makes life harder for everyone, so let's not do that this

Packaging of new upstream (pre-)releases until wheezy

2012-04-14 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, A question about packaging of some upstream (pre-)releases. It seems like many DMs package new releases/fixes bugs closer to the release than attending to that now. Of course it is a time/resource issue, but anyway. Why not package pre-releases in experimental, to squeeze bugs out before the n