Brian J. Murrell [2011-01-25 13:40 -0000]:
> Is there really any harm in leaving them in proposed just in case
> somebody comes to the party even later than those patches?

Only very few people have -proposed enabled, so there they aren't a
real benefit. So we must ensure that the package at least works, to
ensure that we don't have breakage due to underlying toolchain change,
different moon phase, etc. We already had the most stupid regressions
that way; then we can move them to -updates.

> Really, unless a package gets either positive or negative feedback,
> why not just leave it in proposed indefinitely?  What's the hurry to
> remove them?

For preparing 10.04.2 CDs we need to "flush" proposed for the packages
which are shipped on any CD/DVD; postgrey doesn't seem to be on the
server CDs, but it's likely that they are on a DVD. But in either case
it's primarily a matter of not using proposed as a dumping ground for
forgotten packages.

Martin

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