faad2 and faac

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2014-12-11 11:02:08)
> Am Dienstag, den 11.11.2014, 10:31 +0100 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: 
>> The package revisions will be faad2 (2.7-9) and faac (1.28-7). I will 
>> upload them as soon as my GPG key is added to the debian-maintainers 
>> keyring or after the freeze -- whatever comes first. ;)
>
> Yes, I've said that. Well, I am a DM now and still haven't uploaded 
> the packages. Why? The reason is that due to the testing freeze, it 
> would be wrong to upload it to unstable now. It would have to go to 
> experimental instead. But, for the changes to actually take 
> Debian-wide effect I would have to upload it to unstable again, 
> anyway, when the freeze is over.
> 
> So, I thought I'd save us one additional upload at the cost of no 
> intermediate testing of the packages in experimental. I hope you cope 
> with me.

Please reconsider: Some do cherry-pick from experimental.

Sure, not all do that, but also not all use unstable, so similar 
argument as used for not uploading to experimental during freeze can be 
used for not uploading to unstable until close before freeze.


 - Jonas

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