On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 7:55 PM Jeremy Stanley <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2021-01-27 16:31:14 -0500 (-0500), Aaron Boxer wrote:
> > Is there a way of expediting my package's passage into Debian? It
> > has been at least 7 months since I first submitted. I currently
> > maintain my own local .deb builds on github , so that other
> > projects can use them.  According to the Debian Package Tracker,
> > the latest package version has been in Testing as of January 7th.
>
> It's in Debian. Are you asking when it will appear in a stable
> release of Debian? If so, not until the next stable release,
> Bullseye, for which a schedule exists only up through the "hard
> freeze" projected to begin 2021-03-12. After that comes the "full
> freeze" followed by the release, but as of the last update[*] from
> the release team there is no projected date for those yet. Keep in
> mind that newly introduced packages don't generally get added to
> prior stable release series, and Debian makes a new stable release
> something like every 2-2.5 years.
>
> [*] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/01/msg00002.html


Thanks, Jeremy, that makes sense. I just checked on my sid schroot,
and I can install the package .
Aaron

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