Re: Django 1.0 - Possibility of a freeze exception?
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:05:18PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:34 PM, David Spreen <netzwurm@debian.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > the Django project will release their version 1.0 in the beginning of
> > next week. I know that usually no new upstream versions are allowed into
> > Lenny at this point. I wonder though if Django could be an exception.
> >
> > 1. Django has a significant Debian user-base (638 pop contest
> > installations when I last checked).
> >
> > 2. It is unlikely that version 0.96 will receive ongoing security
> > support from upstream for long after 1.0.
> >
> > 3. Due to changes in the admin and form applications, Django 1.0 will be
> > backwards incompatible with 0.96 and the old stable version's use in
> > Debian might be questionable.
> >
> > 4. All packages that use Django are under our control (currently only in
> > experimental).
> >
> > Let me know what you think and how to best approach the release managers
> > with this.
> >
> > Most importantly, you can help this effort by testing the
> > python-django_1.0~beta1-1 package that is currently in experimental. I
> > am already using it in my own work.
>
> I use Django from experimental regularly and it works just fine.
>
> I am +1. But I cannot help, too busy.
I don't have any ability to vote officially, but I am strongly in
support of this, and would do anything possible to help make it happen.
(I have some Python packaging experience, and have been building my own
SVN Django using the experimental packaging for several months.)
Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta
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