Re: unstable/experimental freeze policy

2014-12-16 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Hi Andreas, On 16/12/2014 10:08, Andreas Tille wrote: > We need to make sure that the *release* has no bugs. If you later > upload to unstable and a bug occures you can fix the bug in unstable as > usual. But if you have upload to unstable an later a bug in testing is > detected you run into tro

Re: unstable/experimental freeze policy

2014-12-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Sascha, On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 09:40:48AM +, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > On 15/12/2014 11:30, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Well, this is a misunderstanding. The QA tools are running on testing > > and unstable and I would wait a bit to be sure that several runs will > > not show anything proble

Re: unstable/experimental freeze policy

2014-12-16 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
On 15/12/2014 11:30, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Sascha, Hi Andreas, [...] >>> I think by waiting a certain time to see whether some QA tools have >>> run once or twice which is probably in a one month time frame. >> >> Oh, I didn't know these tools also run on experimental. In this case I >> compl

Re: unstable/experimental freeze policy

2014-12-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Sascha, On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:01:26AM +, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > > You always need to outweight policy with sane reasons / common sense. > > If you think GenomeTools and its dependencies will pretty surely not > > feature any RC bug we will probably not need to keep new versions out

Re: unstable/experimental freeze policy

2014-12-15 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Hi Andreas, >> I have just uploaded a new version of a package (new GenomeTools >> upstream version) to experimental [...] >> do you see much in the way of uploading this package to unstable as well? > > You always need to outweight policy with sane reasons / common sense. > If you think GenomeToo

Re: unstable/experimental freeze policy

2014-12-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Sascha, On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:36:19AM +, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > I have a question regarding the jessie freeze policy. In the policy > document (https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html) it says > that one should "keep disruptive changes out of unstable and continue > mak