Regarding NEW and ftp-master approval

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Wed Oct 25 16:52:15 UTC 2006


On 2006-10-24 Sven Mueller <debian at incase.de> wrote:
> Fabian Fagerholm wrote on 23/10/2006 20:37:
>> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 19:02 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>>>On 2006-10-23 Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at paniq.net> wrote:
>>>>Another question is convincing the FTP-masters to allow cyrus-sasl-2.1
>>>>into sid and then etch.

>>>That is not necessary. If it is accepted in experimental, a following
>>>upload to sid without *more* newly introduced packages does not
>>>require NEW processing and ftp-master acceptance. - ftp-master would
>>>need to actively block it.
>> 
>> Steve Langasek tells me that cyrus-sasl2 (the old package) is frozen. So
>> even though going through NEW for an experimental upload allows us to
>> upload directly to sid without going through NEW, I don't think we
>> should do that without agreeing with the FTP-masters first.

> Well, we should at least notify the FTP-masters when doing the sid
> upload. Getting their OK first shouldn't be necessary.
[...]

Hello,
I really doubt the ftp-masters are interested at all, however the
release-team sure as hell is.
                 cu andreas



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