Re: Bug#474949: debsign: deals badly with Format: 1.8 .changes files and new Checksums-* headers
Hi,
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 20:16:58 +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> >> dpkg >= 1.14.17 generates *.changes files with Format: 1.8. They provide
> >> new Checksums-*: fields which are similar to the Files: field. And debsign
> >> edits in place the Files: field of changes file and leaves the Checksums-*
> >> fields alone.
> >
> > Here's a patch that fixes the issue. I would highly appreciate if you
> > could upload a fixed package today because it's blocking the upload of dpkg
> > to unstable currently. (And we're tight on schedule with dpkg because of
> > the base freeze and there are many features in this version of dpkg that
> > we really want for lenny).
>
> A freeze date is not a date to target major uploads at...
I don't see any problem with adding features up to the point of the
freeze, and I think others on the team share the same opinion.
> You might be aware that dpkg is currently already frozen and a release
> update posting is pending...
I don't think anyone on the team was aware of this until now, neither of
any exact date this would be happening (and I try to keep an eye on the
irc channel and release mailing list).
> Note that in particular the triggers support and any RC bug fixes are
> still candidates for migration to testing, though other features might
> not be depending on their impact...
I can understand that the freeze imposes a feature freeze on those
packages, but not that it restricts to only RC bug fixes at this point
when there's still 5-6 months to the target release date.
regards,
guillem
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