[Pkg-emacsen-addons] wc-mode (and two pkg-emacsen questions)

[Sean Whitton]

Dear Nick,

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 04:06:50PM -0400, Nicholas Steeves wrote:
> From what I've read about the freeze policy it cannot be unblocked.  Given
> this, I'd like to maintain the stretch-bpo along packages I'm working on 
> for stretch+1 as part of my mini project.  I know it's early, but is there 
> such things as ITMB (intent to maintain backport)?

You don't need to.  Just backport it when the time comes, or ask me to
backport it.

> Also, how should packages that must be uploaded to experimental during
> a freeze be pushed to pkg-emacsen?  I'm guessing that I should
> initially push my work as changelog UNRELEASED...  Then, should
> master's changelog maintain an UNRELEASED distribution and should
> experimental have it's own temporary branch?  Or maybe the
> experimental branch should merge from master, dch -r -D experimental,
> commit, build, tag, and then only the tag is pushed?  For that to
> work, should the version be changed from 1.0-1 to something like
> 1.0-1~experimental?  Based on
> https://release.debian.org/stretch/freeze_policy.html I'm unclear if
> elpafied packages can still be uploaded to unstable, so I'm assuming
> experimental.  Please let me know if this isn't the case.

If it's NEW, it can still go into unstable.

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Sean Whitton