No libtiff transition for sarge

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

Just a note from an outsider in case someone hasn't already noted the 
obvious:

Unless the release managers drop their current release plan and revert 
the base freeze, the libtiff transition can't get into sarge [1].

This means that fixes for packages depending directly or indirectly on 
libtiff (e.g. via depending on libgtk2.0-0) that aren't already in  
testing have to go through testing-proposed-updates.

It's therefore also impossible for packages like Gimp 2 or XEmacs to be  
included in Debian 3.1 [4].

cu
Adrian

BTW: Which member of the release management team is working on checking 
     all 41 frozen packages where more recent versions are in unstable 
     whether sarge lacks fixes for RC bugs (e.g. #237071)?

BTW2: Please Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed to debian-devel.


[1] OK, you could upload half of GNOME recompiled against an older 
    libgpg-error0 and other packages recompiled against older versions 
    of e.g. slang1 to testing-proposed-updates [2], but that definitely 
    takes more time than dropping the current freeze.

[2] Additionally, gnutls11 would have to be unfrozen and recompiled
    with the internal libtasn1 [3].

[3] I'm not pretending I've found all things that would have to be done
    in order to do the libtiff transition without unfreezing base - but 
    I'm too lame to check the complete 1.1 MB update_excuses for other 
    issues.

[4] OK, you could add them via testing-proposed-updates - but if such
    changes are allow through testing-proposed-updates, you could upload
    really everything to testing-proposed-updates.

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