On 30 August 2025 14:23:42 UTC, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote:
>I don't understand. A package is uninstallable in unstable, and you
>seem to argue that it is fine to leave it at that for 5 months? No
>bugreport, nothing?
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't trying to weasel out of it and justify but explain
what happened, I do agree with you fwiw. Although *five months uninstallable*
sounds quite bad, this was specifically because of the freeze. Since neither
this package nor arf-strings was detrimental for anything, I didn't want to
trigger several round of effective chain reactions in the rust world just for
that. But in hindsight I should've filed an RC bug. I remember specifically
choosing not to, since it was not in testing and would not migrate either.
>Please initially upload to experimental, and strive towards packages in
>the unstable suite always being installable.
You're free to follow that workflow, but I certainly will not be doing that
unless I have very clear reasons (I do agree that "freeze" is a good reason).
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Best,
Ananthu
