[Bug 37486] Re: [Bug 37486] Re: [Bug 37486] Re: UVF exception: rails 1.0.0-1 -> 1.1.0rc1-2

[Reinhard Tartler]

This was in Bug https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/37486, moving
discussion to ubuntu-motu.

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:32:35AM -0000, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> I don't think the scope of this is limited to ruby-related stuff. My
> current rule to determine whether a package should be updated is :
> - it builds fine
> - it installs fine
> - it's not prone to breaking other things
> - it's easy to update, or it's useful
> 
> We don't have the manpower to test all packages in universe. So, if the
> upstream developer and the debian developer think a new version is worth
> going into Debian, I prefer to think that they can be trusted, because
> they know much more about the packages than we do.
> 
> (The difference with ruby is that most packages are easy to upgrade)


This seems to me a worthwile candidate for a spec for dapper+1, don't
you think?

For the current release, we already agreed on the current process.

Gruesse,
	Reinhard