On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Moray Allan wrote: > Earlier removals: I wonder if removing RC-buggy packages much earlier in the > freeze would help -- even if it's logically no different to saying they will > be removed later, it might wake up maintainers into bug-fixing action > faster, and especially maintainers of packages that are removed due to their > dependencies.
Removing packages in the freeze is way too late, they should be removed from testing in an (semi-)automated fashion during the whole release cycle. IIRC the release team are planning on doing this and have done it manually in the past. > Flag up RC bugs: To tackle things earlier in the cycle, perhaps we could > push use of some tools[1] that more actively flag up new RC-buggy packages > to users of testing? There is apt-listbugs but does that work for things like PackageKit or software-center? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6hduh1xbyfuxv6ag4tgpgoqt64wn8ev96ef3drbwec...@mail.gmail.com
