On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 21:52:59 +0100 Ivo De Decker <ivodd@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 08:21:48PM +0100, Sven Bartscher wrote: > > We (the haskell-team) recently fixed an RC-bug[1] in haskell-hgettext. > > We uploaded the fix to experimental and were wondering if there’s > > still a chance to get it into jessie, though we don’t think it’s very important > > to get it into jessie. > > There certainly is a chance (see below). > > What do you mean when you write "we don't think it's very important to get it > into jessie"? If the severity of the bug isn't correct, you should downgrade > it. If the bug is really grave, and it won't be fixed, then haskell-hgettext > will be removed from jessie and not be in the release. But you can also just > fix the bug. With "we don't think it's very important to get it into jessie" I meant that it wouldn't be a catastrophe if haskell-hgettext wouldn't be in jessie. But having it in jessie would be better. > > So can you tell, if there’s a chance for hgettext, before we prepare a > > proper release for unstable and file a bug or is it clear that hgettext > > won’t make it? > > As stated in the freeze policy, targeted fixes for RC bugs are still accepted > for jessie. So if you have a targeted fix, you can upload it to unstable and > file an unblock request (using reportbug). In that case, there is no need to > remove haskell-hgettext from jessie, which is probably the preferred way > forward for you. Thanks for clarifying. Regards Sven
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