[maemo-community] Periodic cleanup of Extras-Devel?

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Friday 15 January 2010 12:07:20 Simon Pickering wrote:
> > To repeat myself, I would say that the promotion to -testing
> > should be the lib
> > maintainter's job. Unstable is unstable, no package should
> > pull in random
> > versions to other repositories. However, if deemed working
> > and already
> > in -testing, it is not a problem for another application to
> > auto-promote it.
>
> Interesting. I think that if a package uses some library and it works,
> the whole lot should be pushed to testing. E.g. I've got a bunch of

Now, just to take an extreme example - imagine what happens when someone 
clicks promote on their Qt4.6 (or PySide) dependent application ? Qt 4.6 is 
in -devel, too, and while it certainly works, it's nowhere near a 'real' 
release (not to mention those packages will appear in Nokia repos and/or 
PR1.2 eventually). In my case, I have not pushed some of the libs I maintain 
to testing as they are based on upstream nightly builds - and would not 
recommend anyone pushing them to -testing until upstream declares it stable. 

> With that said, it would probably be worth informing the maintainers of
> any packages that are to be promoted so that they first know about it,
> and secondly can stop the promotion if they know there's a problem.

This can work from testing-to-extras as there is the 10 day quarantine, but 
how would you do this in the case of devel-to-testing ?

Regards,
Attila