On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 06:46:31AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > We have experimental, though there is nothing in effect that prevents a
> > maintainer to upload experimental packages to unstable atm...

> Packages only in experimental are ignored by Release and Security, so that
> would address part of my concern.  (And I expect QA to mostly ignore them
> as well unless nothing appears to be happening with them.)

> I like the idea mentioned earlier in this bug of using experimental as a
> place to put a package with known issues while those issues are tracked as
> a compromise.  I think a reject is better as a general policy for most
> packages, but for controversial cases, using experimental to see if the
> bugs really will be fixed may be a good idea.

(For the record...)

Given that there's no ACL preventing packages in experimental being uploaded
to unstable, I don't think there should be a different standard for
accepting NEW source packages into experimental vs. unstable.

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