On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:08:02PM +0100, Tim Retout wrote: > On 22 October 2010 10:32, Mats Erik Andersson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > However, and this is my present question to you, > > would the release team decline the package due > > a decision to migrate to format 3.0 already now? > > Possibly, at this stage - it's not ideal to make packaging changes > when fixing RC bugs; but if they did reject it, you would still be > able to make an upload via testing-proposed-updates.
testing-proposed-updates is often reserved as a last resort, since not much testing happens for packages uploaded via there. Many more people have "unstable" and "testing" in their sources.list, than testing-proposed-updates. > If in doubt, you can ask the debian-release mailing list (preferably > once you have a debdiff) before uploading the new package. This can > also be done by filing a 'future unblock' bug against the > release.debian.org pseudopackage: > http://bugs.debian.org/release.debian.org Or, just mail them, if you don't feel like filing a bug (though the bug would make tracking easier for the release team). Kumar -- Those who don't understand Linux are doomed to reinvent it, poorly. -- unidentified source -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
