[Pkg-octave-devel] [Pkg-octave-commit] [octave] 04/04: Changelog entry for 4.0.0-1.

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2015-06-04 16:14]:

> Le jeudi 04 juin 2015 à 15:54 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
>
>> Thanks for the upload.  I have just two questions:
>>
>> 1) Will this new upload reset to zero the waiting time in the NEW queue?
>
> If by "waiting time" you mean the time displayed on the webpage of 
> pending NEW uploads, I think the answer is yes. But I don't think the 
> ftpmasters use that waiting time as a criterion for determinig the 
> priority of packages to be accepted. The amount of changes (especially 
> to the copyright file) seems to be a more relevant predictor of time 
> spent in the NEW queue (though this statement is not based on any 
> systematic empirical study).
>
>> 2) Is there a specific reason why you uploaded the package to 
>> experimental instead of unstable?
>
> Yes: we did not yet obtained the permission from the Release Team to
> start the transition (actually we did not even ask). For the time being, 
> we don't even know if the package compiles on all arches, so we really 
> need at least one accepted upload in experimental.

Ok, thanks for the answers.  They make sense.

Rafael