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Re: NMUs?



On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 14:56 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Svante Signell, le Fri 19 Aug 2011 14:47:30 +0200, a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 14:36 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > 
> > > > It could have turned out that this bug hindered a lot of other
> > > > packages from building.
> > > 
> > > Sure, but there's no point in rushing building packages: there's a whole
> > > year for that. What we need to do is fixing bugs, not hide them.
> > 
> > How to address the problem with DMs not willing to package new upstream
> > versions fixing a lot of bugs, especially including Hurd build problems?
> > NMU?? This hinders a lot of progress.
> 
> Please point a specific case and we'll end up doing an NMU, yes.
> According to graph-top.txt, there's not so much hindering.

Two examples:
1) file
Unstable: 5.04-5+b1 (5.04-5: 05 Aug 2010)
Experimental: 5.04-6: 18 Sep 2010
Upstream: 5.08: 03 Aug 2011
Upstream version fixing FTBFS: 5.06: 14 Apr 2011

Bug reports:
#612742: 10 Feb 2011, not applied patch: retitled
#626340: 11 May 2011, wishlist about 5.06, 5.07, 5.08

2) logrotate
Unstable: 3.7.8-6: 17 Apr 2010
Experimental: 3.7.9-1: 22 Jun 2011
Upstream version fixing FTBFS: 3.8.0: 21 Jun 2011

Bug reports:
#612342: 14 Feb 2011, Partially correct patch, applied to 3.7.9
#633529: 11 Jul 2011, wishlist about 3.8.0


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