On 12/05/12 10:07, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> I notice that packages have not been taken from the queue for 3 weeks: >> >> http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html > > Freezes and NEW are mostly unrelated. >
Can you elaborate on that a little? The link you provided below doesn't explain the status of NEW - but Google found various things suggesting that Debian stopped accepting new packages before squeeze was released. >> Are people just wasting their time preparing packages that are going to be >> passed over? > > Packages that don't make it into unstable before the freeze won't make > it into wheezy, but that doesn't mean they are "passed over", they > just have to wait for the next release or for wheezy-backports to be > open. I imagine that could be quite disappointing for people who have put a lot of effort into a package - I'm involved with a couple of packages where upstream have made a lot of effort to get things in good shape for Debian and I'm keen to make sure I don't let them down. Does the package have to be in unstable or it actually has to have progressed to testing as well before the freeze? >> There is no official statement about this on the mentors site or this >> mailing list for example, but Google finds a few unofficial >> announcements on various mailing lists advising that a freeze is imminent > > The release team usually makes their statements on d-d-a, not > -mentors. Their latest mail states that the freeze is "due in June", > sounds imminent to me :) > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/01/msg00009.html I can understand not everything is announced everywhere, but I thought it might have been mentioned here given all the ITP/RFS activity on this list. When deadlines are set, will there be any kind of notice for people to get things uploaded? Or the release team just make a decision one day and it is effective immediately? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
