Re: [Gnumed-devel] 0.5 release schedule

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 12:52:15AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> I gather we can release GNUmed 0.5.x in some form(s) before August 27th, 
> provided we block deb package movement *into testing* until August 27.
> 
> I gather the objective is that – if we *did* find some critical or very 
> annoying bug in 0.5.0 – follow-on 0.5.x patches can *replace* the 0.5.0 in 
> testing at the same time as a known-to-function 0.4.x will be what got frozen 
> into the new stable... it is Ubuntu-derived-from-Debian-testing that we are 
> talking about, right?
> 
> So how do we block deb package movement?

Ubuntu probably adds some sort of mechanism to do that.

I would imagine that filing a Release Critical bug onto a
0.5 deb in Debian/Unstable would make them not pull it.

Karsten
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