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Tomáš Chvátal posted on Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:29:52 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> Guys, |
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> the policy makes perfect sense, there are people that sync just monthly, |
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> so they might want to get some headsup why their packages are going |
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> away, and not just remove them. |
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> Thats why the recommended value is 60 days, 30 for urgent cases, lately |
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> we just moved to 30 for everything, but please stick with that, |
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> do not make it lower. |
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> This is not about waiting for maintainer, or slowing up distro, but |
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> letting our users to catch up with what we do. |
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> As a side note masked packages CAN be broken, so the stab can proceed |
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> from the point you mask all the broken ones. |
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Mask it now, do the libpng thing in 14 days (or even sooner if all to-be- |
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broken packages are masked), but leave the masked packages for the full |
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30 days as the policy states. |
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Libpng isn't held up that way, while the package still gets its 30 day |
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masking last-rites. No policy broken; no maintainer toes stepped on as a |
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result of the broken policy. No more nasty threads about (this) broken |
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policy and unhappy maintainers as a result! =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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