Re: vpim into wheezy-backports
On 04/02/15 10:29, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> Dear Daniel!
>
> * Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> [2015-02-04 10:10:01 CET]:
>> The reason for this upload is because the vpim package in wheezy has
>> trouble with Ruby 1.9.
> So how is that an issue that don't affect regular wheezy users? ruby
> in wheezy is on 1.9, so I wonder - shouldn't that get fixed through a
> stable upload instead of worked around in a backport?
>
> Note: backports is about having newer features in packages available
> for users of stable and not about getting bugfixes into stable. Given
> that the only difference between stable and testing currently is the NMU
> upload to fix for ruby 1.9, I don't see why this goes through backports.
> Please do fix this issue in stable real for the sake of plain stable
> users and not through backports.
Hi Rhonda,
I don't mind doing a release to stable as well but we were also hoping
to get it installed onto ullmann.debian.org by DSA and that might happen
more quickly if it goes out into wheezy-backports, see the comments here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775180#67
Regards,
Daniel
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