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From: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:17:07 +0100
Hi,

Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o>:

> Some packages have new releases more than once a month and sometimes
> it's reasonable to not skip stabilization of any version. Given
> version of a package is usually no longer tested by users after
> release of a newer version, so I suggest the following change to the
> policy of stabilizations: Stabilization of given version of a package
> can be requested if this version has been in the tree for at least 10
> days and a newer version of this package has been added to the tree.

 If you do that, you will see arch teams skip those stabilisations in a
daily rhythm.  Honestly, who should do that work?  Having every minor
release stable is a big nuisance for arch workers.

V-Li

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