Re: Plasma 5.7.2 in Debian?
Luigi Toscano ha scritto:
> Martin Steigerwald ha scritto:
>> Am Samstag, 27. August 2016, 17:15:30 CEST schrieb Luigi Toscano:
>>> Maximiliano Curia ha scritto:
>>>> plasma-workspace tests were failling in the 5.7.[0-2] releases and we
>>>> decided to wait till this gets fixed, this was finally fixed in 5.7.3 (by
>>>> moving the failling tests to a non packageable project). By that time 5.8
>>>> was announced to be the first lts, so it makes sense to wait for 5.8,
>>>> which should be released "real soon now"(tm).
>>>
>>> As this is no more true, as most of Plasma 5.7.x landed in unstable breaking
>>> the remaining 5.6 bits, would be possible to have the missing bits (from a
>>> quick glance, plasma-desktop, plasma-workspace and khotkeys for sure)?
>>
>> I just saw on debian-qt-kde-ml, plasma-workspace 5.7.4 uploaded again after an
>> initial reject due to source only upload, so if ftpmasters accept it this
>> time, at least this one is coming.
>>
>
> The reject afaik does not depend on the package being source-only; it
> introduces new binaries.
I stand corrected sorry. The reject was, as you wrote, because it was a source
only-upload for a package with new binaries and that should have gone through NEW.
>
> Maybe a way to solve this is a push to experimental, so that a block of new
> packages can "decant" in experimental without breaking the rest of the world.
>
This is still a valid suggestion.
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Luigi
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