On 04/05/11 at 22:19 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 04 mai 2011 à 22:12 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > While I like the idea in general, I think that it should also be > > possible to upload packages directly to rolling (through > > rolling-proposed-updates). It will be useful in cases where neither the > > package in testing, not the package in unstable, can be used to fix a > > problem in rolling. > > Adding this possibility is opening Pandora’s box. Once you allow this, > people start using packages that are neither in unstable nor in testing, > and they don’t help us working on our packages at all. This also adds an > extra burden on maintainers who want to use this feature. > > Could you please give a concrete example of where this would be needed? > I think all existing cases should be covered by uploading directly to > either t-p-u or unstable.
Use case: During freeze, there's a library transition in unstable, and a new upstream version in unstable. You want to get the new upstream version into rolling (not testing), but you can't because it would pull the whole transition. So you need a way to upload the new upstream version linked against the libraries in rolling. - Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110505062334.ga3...@xanadu.blop.info
