Feature Freeze and bug fix releases

[Michael Bienia]

On 2008-02-14 22:11:29 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Another option I'm thinking which would be in the middle of having to do some
> paperwork when it shouldn't be necessary and not thinking about it or not
> checking it is to listen all the changes from upstream NEWS or ChangeLog (if the
> list is reasonable) in debian/changelog. We already do that in the DesktopTeam
> even if we don't have Freezes. Would that make sense?

That could only work when MOTUs package the bugfix release ahead of
Debian. Perhaps also in merges. What do you propose in cases where the
bugfix release is already in Debian unstable and only need syncing?

Michael