Re: A new Priority level, ???backports??? ? (Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-10-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 10:58:24AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > I was acually meditating on Joerg's answer for the past two weeks, wondering > that if my some of my packages are bullshit, I should look for another place > to > distribute them instead of letting them be a burden for everybody. I

Re: A new Priority level, ‘ backports ’ ? (Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-10-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, I was acually meditating on Joerg's answer for the past two weeks, wondering that if my some of my packages are bullshit, I should look for another place to distribute them instead of letting them be a burden for everybody. Since he sent his anwer again, I will reply again. Let's hope it

Re: A new Priority level, ‘backports’ ? (Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber writes: > The ftp team has a history of strongly discouraging uploads that they > don't feel like accepting (such as a package that would download > eicar.com from the internet and place it in a defined place where other > packages might find and use it) and of killing of packages on g

Re: A new Priority level, ‘ backports ’ ? (Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 17:12:49 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:17:02AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > > > > So what backports "priority" actually says is "my package is such a > > bullshit that I don't want it ever released, but I am fine with putting > > burden on t

Re: A new Priority level, ‘ backports ’ ? (Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:17:02AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > > So what backports "priority" actually says is "my package is such a > bullshit that I don't want it ever released, but I am fine with putting > burden on the people keeping backports running instead". I think we have > a way alr

Re: A new Priority level, ‘backports’ ? (Re: unstable/testing/[pending/frozen/]stable)

2010-09-23 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> the addition of new suites has the disadvantage of dispersing our userbase. > Here is a proposition that conserves the current flow of package migration for > packages released in Stable, and that makes Testing the meeting point for all > the packages. > We could introduce a new priority level