[Pkg-octave-devel] [Pkg-octave-commit] [octave] 04/04: Changelog entry for 4.0.0-1.
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at laboissiere.net
Thu Jun 4 14:43:53 UTC 2015
* 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
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