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List:       ubuntu-devel-discuss
Subject:    new packages freeze policy
From:       hobbsee () kubuntu ! org (Sarah Hobbs)
Date:       2007-09-08 13:49:17
Message-ID: 46E2A85D.7020000 () kubuntu ! org
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> Could someone remind me the purpose of this distinction?  Why should
> newer, buggier packages be given a later freeze time?
> 
Because nothing else can possibly depend on them.  Whereas with current
packages, if you upgrade package x that package y and z depend on,
packages y and z have the potential to break.

(This is the reason more so than ScottK's, although that is part of it.)

Hobbsee
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