Comment 7 for bug 418825

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tjk (tim-klassen) wrote : Re: [Bug 418825] Re: New great version 1.0 released

Thanks for your response... I've a better idea how "the packaging
process" works now (especially since I did some research and discovered
what a freeze is). Always something new to learn... :-)

Jonathan Thomas wrote:
> Usually this package would be synced from Debian as soon as it was
> updated there. The only thing is that we are past both Debian import
> freeze (so these syncs have to be requested manually) and since a few
> days before 1.0 was released, Feature Freeze. This means that to get an
> exception for feature freeze, one must go through a bunch of red tape.
> If Debian's going to update to 1.0.1 in the next few days, it'll be
> worth it (for me) to wait a few days instead of going through all that
> twice. If you want to request a sync yourself, go right ahead.
>
> Freeze exception request documentation can be found here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess
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