On Sun, 19 May 2002, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > I was personally not too much interested in the past Debian releases, but was > more interested in developing Debian further, rather than stabilizing it and > hammering it together for a release. It was easy for me to do this, because > the people working on the release could do so in the "frozen" distribution, > and the people working on the next release could do it in the "unstable" > distribution. This was not without problems if you had to release a package > only for frozen, but anyway, that's how it was done. There was a clear cut > where unstable was virtually copied into frozen and that was very much like > a branch in CVS. After that, everything in unstable could hardly affect > frozen and vice-versa. If you are used to CVS you will know that a branch > is very useful to split development (in the release branch, you maintain > stability, and in the HEAD branch you continue the unstable development).
It is difficult(but not impossible) to upload to woody-proposed-updates. In the past, this was easier to accomplish. This is why this freeze is affecting all of Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
