[maemo-developers] extras-devel -> extras-testing auto-promotion not working?

[From: Igor Stoppa]

ext Mikko Vartiainen wrote:

> You can promote PyMaemo packages to extras-testing but it's not the
> solution, because it doesn't help getting them to Extras (you can't
> promote them there). Even if newer versions of non user/ packages were
> promoted to Extras it doesn't help much getting them to end users
> devices if they had earlier version of them installed because of how
> Application Manager works. Currently getting something to updated
> requires that update is somehow visible through user/ package both in
> Application Manager and packages interface autopromotion algorithm.
>
> Promotion system could probably be changed that it always promotes
> newer version of non user/ package. One option would be that package
> maintainer can promote updates of non user/ package to extras
> manually, but that circumvents the whole qa process.
>   
But if here there is a clear bug (not using /opt) which gets fixed by 
the newer version, what more is needed? And why?

igor