Bug#841294: Overrule maitainer of "global" to package a new upstream version
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 04:00:04PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
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> First, upgrading to new upstream is presumed good, not always good.
> My concern with Ron's position is mostly that he wants the people
> requesting a new upstream to justify that rather than wanting the htags
> users to justify not breaking htags.
You understand the testability difference between those two though
right? And that proving a negative is a logical impossibility?
It's relatively easy for someone to report "I have this problem"
and to assess whether that can reasonably be fixed with a backport
or not. We do that for stable and security updates all the time.
But the only practical way to "ask" htags users to do what you ask
is to first break it anyway, and then hope you still have the
ability to backpedal once they realise you have.
Which is exactly what I was proposing the time was finally ripe
for us to do in an orderly way. And it was further changes that
happened in only the most recent upstream releases of global
which really made that look convincing. That still wasn't the
case with the source Punit originally proposed.
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