Re: package in frozen with a grave bug
In article <[🔎] 19981122165344.A7214@visi.net>, Ben Collins <bmc@visi.net> writes:
> I just started maintaining the 'chos' package which had a grave bug
> report filed against it
> (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/29/29223.html) in the slink
> distribution. The bug can cause severe super block curruption and
> loss of data. I upgraded the the upstream source to a newer version
> to fix the problem (and several others) and also changed a few other
> things in order to fix another bug and generally make the package a
> little more tidy.
> Question: should i still upload the package to frozen or just let
> the package get pulled from slink since it may introduce more bugs
> (more meaning the newer source may have other undocumented bugs)?
I'm feeling conservative today so I'd say upload new version to
unstable (potato) and file a bug to have it removed from frozen
(slink). I guess it kinda depends on how many people are going to be
upset of slink doesn't ship with the package.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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