Hello Luk,
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:43:55PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> On 05/14/2011 10:44 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:33:21AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> >> This is still about the fact that you're expecting all debian.org
> >> resources to be in sync at point release time. I don't think that's
> >> reasonable, the release process is complicated enough as it is. Please
> >> don't reopen.
> >
> > I'm not saying it is easy, I'm not saying that this is a "must fix",
> > I'm not saying someone is to blame, etc.
> >
> > But you are saying: "This is a problem (bug) but I don't want to see a
> > report about it?" I belived that Debian is not hiding problems. And,
> > the bts has a tag called "wontfix" to indicate a problem a fix cannot
> > be found.
> >
> > I hope you can enlighten me why this problem should not be documented
> > in the bts.
>
> There currently are mails to inform people of upcoming point releases
> and mails to announce point releases when everything is available on the
> mirror network. What is it that you are still missing and what exactly
> can be done to get that fixed?
It is currently not clear which pages are current and which pages are
out of date regarding version numbers after point updates.
A fix could be some note on e.g. http://packages.debian.org/ that the
version numbers after point releases might be (slightly) out of date
and that in case of doubt http://packages.qa.debian.org/ should be
used.
Another fix was proposed in my initial bug report (why is nobody
reading this?) already:
My suggestion: First update www.debian.org (*with* version numbers)
and then push the update out to the mirrors. And secondly unify the
versions given in http://packages.debian.org/XXX and
http://packages.qa.debian.org/XXX (and in the latter also where the
latest one is printed).
Hope this clarifies.
Do you agree to reopen this bug now? (After having explained the initial
report again and having proposed two possible solutions)
Thanks!
Greetings
Helge
P.S. And of course, adding version numbers in the NEWS on
www.debian.org, e.g. News/2010/20100130.wml, would also solve the
immediate problem ...
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