Some sort of freeze process?

[Jesse Keating]

On Friday 02 July 2004 09:15, William Stockall wrote:
> Should people consider some sort of process for freezing packages
> which are to be released?  For example, all this discussion of
> whether to include yet another patch in the kernel.  What probably
> should happen is a package is frozen for release testing.  After that
> the only changes that go in are for problems introduced due to the
> proposed updates.  Any further patches should go into the next
> release.
>
>
> Thoughts?

In all honesty, the first time a package hits updates-testing, thats 
when it should be considered to be frozen.  We just got greedy w/ the 
kernel package and kept adding stuff into it.

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