Let me start by saying that my previous mail [0] seeking a release exception for tbb was not the best organized or best formed mail. I will more carefully lay out the pertinent bits of information in this mail. According to the Lenny freeze announcement [1], there were some specific things that were listed as being worthy of a freeze exception. Here are the items I think are relevant: - fixes for release critical bugs (i.e., bugs of severity critical, grave, and serious) in all packages; - fixes for severity: important bugs in packages of priority: optional or extra, only when this can be done via unstable; - documentation fixes. Now, the version of tbb (tbb_2.1~20080605-1) for which I am seeking an exception has just recently been accepted from the NEW queue and is now in unstable. The two primary changes to the package (aside from it being a new upstream release) are: - the inclusion of proper SONAME support - the inclusion of documentation Both of these changes are upstream changes. Previously, the documentation was completely absent. The SONAME support in previous versions of the package was something that I had hacked together in order to meet the Debian library packaging requirements. With regard to the SONAME support, I had filed a bug upstream and included for them a patch for the SONAME support I added. They decided to add SONAME support, but in a different manner than I did. Now, I am not certain if the SONAME support issue would be considered severity "important" or RC. However, I am mostly trying to avoid potential upgrade woes between lenny and lenny+1 because of differences in the way SONAME is implemented. In any case, tbb is of priority extra, has no r-deps in Debian and is used by a relatively small number of users. Would a freeze exception be a possibility in this case? Regards, -Roberto [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/07/msg00562.html [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg00007.html -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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