Bug#704455: document --bpo / upload policy

[Holger Levsen]

package: devscripts
severity: wishlist
x-debbugs-cc: 703633 at bugs.debian.org, debian-backports at lists.debian.org

Hi,

On Montag, 1. April 2013, James McCoy wrote:
> > Unless someone opposes to my view, I think we have a majority to agree
> > that dch --bpo should use wheezy, and that this really is a bug. So I
> > will open a new bug to ask the release team if they would accept such a
> > change.
> We typically do this through the first stable update, as the version of
> devscripts in unstable should default to current stable until Wheezy is
> released.

Aaaah! This absolutly makes sense, just seems to be wildly unknown, so please 
document this prominently in the devscripts package.

> If people would rather this happen via t-p-u and there's an ACK from the
> RT, I'm fine with uploading such a change.

IMHO it would be desirable to have this fixed for wheezy in wheezy r0, yes.

(But please don't delay the release for this, it's totally fine to have this 
in wheezy r1 and jessie r0 ;-)

cheers,
	Holger
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