NEW queue cleared, what next

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 13:52 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> All our uploads have cleared the NEW queue, so I was wondering what's
> the plan now?
> 
> Given we have many new binary packages coming up, personally I would
> vote for either uploading 358 to experimental as-is (without
> libnvidia-cfg1 and libnvidia-glcore that were committed recently to
> branches/355) or skipping it entirely (was a short lived and dead
> release anyway).
> 
> And then have 361 with all the new packages in all at once queue up in
> NEW, since that will take a while again, so that we can progress once we
> are past that step.
> 
> The problem I'm afraid of is that many users will be unable to use
> Debian at all without local builds or using the upstream installer, as
> 352 is dead and it will not receive updates to support new hardware like
> the 1070 and 1080 cards.
> 
> Also Stretch is completely at the mercy of CVEs since again 352 is dead
> and won't get any security fixes, which is also worrying.
> 
> Thoughts?

Well, the libnvidia-cfg1 and libnvidia-glcore upload was already
accepted, nice :-)

I've been switching between 361 and 367 for a good while now and they
both look good. Anything particular I should test?

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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