"current GR and release of etch"

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:35:49 +0200
rants

I doubt the current vote can delay etch when accepted. There are many different GR suggestions out there to get additional exceptions for etch. And there is no doubt at all such expectations will get accepted with a gigantic majority.

I see more danger to delay etch when the GR is not accepted but voted down. Then people will have much less ground for what to get exceptions and far less common ground on what to base all the GRs that are to come. And given the large amount of proposals on debian-vote, having many more GR will not help to get etch out.

Also note that if the GR is not accepted, there are many people believing that the current rules still apply and these rules are: source is needed for all bits in the Debian distribution, and much more things has to be ripped out than those mysterious 6 months if no additional exceptions are voted on.