On 26/03/16 00:02, Tobias Frost wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 21:58:56 +0100 Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg
> @debian.org> wrote:
>>  
>> 1) provide a real libpng-dev and upload on experimental in 7 days
> starting now.
>> (I'm going to upload on deferred/7 in a few minutes/hours)
>>  
> 
> Hi Gianfranco,
> 
> what bothers me is that having a real libpng-dev package requires us to
> go through NEW. 
> I'd avoid NEW-processing at this point of time, as its processing is
> non-deterministic and might eat up significant amount of time left
> until the freeze... And time is running fast.
> 
> At the moment no package requires a versioned dependency on libpng-dev
> anyway, so IMHI that can be deferred to a later time.
> (I believe having a real libpng-dev package is a good idea, so lets go
> for it, cleared from NEW via experimental *once* libpng16 is is sid)
> 
> At this point of time, I think we're in better control when manually
> uploading libpng12 and libpng16 in a coordinated way.
> 
> 
> Gianfranco, Emilio: Thoughts?

binary-NEW shouldn't be a big deal. Just make sure to upload to experimental.

Emilio

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