On Nov 03, 2015, at 12:03 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >1. I have a simple package, which I keep maintaining with the usual >'master' and 'upstream' branches, but then the testing freeze will >come and I want to start uploading to experimental, at that point I >need to change the layout of the repo (annoying, but I am the >maintainer, I can do that I guess)
If you don't think you'll need to upload to unstable during the freeze, then I think it's probably okay to put experimental changes on master. I did this during the last freeze and it worked out okay. I guess it's a bit of a gamble though. >2. what if I am not the package maintainer tough? I cannot enforce a >new layout to that repo. take this real-life example sqlalchemy: I >asked Piotr for a jessie backport of 1.0.8, he agreed I can go ahead, >I have a package ready and I dont know how to commit it to the repo. >what should I do at this point? I guess the maintainer has to give you permission to rename the branches, or at least to add a debian/jessie branch for the backport. Cheers, -Barry