Re: staged freeze

2012-12-11 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:02:58PM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: Do you think that it's a good idea to have the freeze for libc at the same time as the freeze for sl (steaming locomotive) or iceweasel or extremetuxracer? It just prolongs the freeze with no real benefit. I'm happy with every leaf

staged freeze

2012-12-10 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi, what do you think about staged freeze for Debian, for wheezy+1 maybe? ( Bikeshedding alert! http://bikeshed.com ) First stage, freeze only essential+important, low level packages Second stage, freeze all libraries with more then one dependency Third stage, freeze all non-leaf packages

Re: staged freeze

2012-12-10 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 22:02:58 +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: Has this been discussed before? It's been done before. Cheers, Juien signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: staged freeze

2012-12-10 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-12-10, Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro wrote: Has this been discussed before? Squeeze was released using a staged freeze. and iirc also lenny. I'm pretty sure release-team has reasons to change ... /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: staged freeze

2012-12-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro writes: what do you think about staged freeze for Debian, for wheezy+1 maybe? ( Bikeshedding alert! http://bikeshed.com ) First stage, freeze only essential+important, low level packages Second stage, freeze all libraries with more then one dependency Third stage