[Pkg-octave-devel] Updating the packages on RC-unrelated issues

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 09:42:26AM -0400, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> I wish Debian's release cycle didn't change the de-facto meaning of
> unstable and experimental during freeze time. I wish that during
> freeze time, a new wheezy-proposed or whatever branch was created and
> unstable and experimental kept the same meaning.

The meaning of 'unstable' doesn't change during freeze - if you look at
it as the start of the default pipeline for packages that should end up
in the next stable release.

The problem is that the freeze takes so long that working on packages
not meant for the next release becomes an issue.

	Thomas