[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#594119: Upgrade path from Lenny to Squeeze is broken

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 11/02/2010 09:20 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 12:27 +0100, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
>> On 11/02/2010 12:25 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 03:15:22 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 05:36:08PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
>>> Err.  That was uploaded as part of a new upstream release, which as far
>>> as I can tell doesn't really match the criteria from
>>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/10/msg00002.html
>>>
>>> What's the plan for getting this fixed in squeeze?
>>>
>>
>> Through an upload via testing-proposed-updates.
>
> t-p-u is supposed to be for situations where the package in unstable
> can't migrate for some reason, not so you can upload a version you
> know /won't be allowed/ to migrate. :-(  It's certainly not intended as
> a means of circumventing the request we made in the last d-d-a mail (and
> earlier ones) to upload squeeze-targeted changes to unstable.
>

The packages in unstable will never be allowed into testing, as they are
based on a new upstream release. The upload of this package to unstable happened
about the same time when the freeze was announced, it wasn't intentional.

> For one thing, (next to) no-one tests packages in t-p-u before they hit
> testing.
>

I don't think this is a real problem in our case.

Regards
	Racke


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