Re: Updating fis-gtm package to 6.1

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Hi Luis,

any news about fis-gtm update?

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:22:01PM -0500, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Dominique Belhachemi <domibel@debian.org>wrote:
> 
> > There is no big difference to all the other packages in Debian.
> > Transitions happen all the time.
> >
> > Just let the latest stable release propagate into testing. Luis is setting
> > up the git packaging infrastructure to make a transition from one release
> > to another release as smooth as possible. We can deal with all the other
> > issues when they arise.
> >
> 
> 
> Thanks Dominique,
> 
> 
> As far as I have understood the git packaging infrastructure, it
> seems indeed that we can put the multiple versions of fis-gtm
> in different git branches, and then use the gbp.conf file to capture
> the policy decision (from debian-med) on what specific versions
> to make available as packages.
> 
> 
> I confess that I'm not very familiar with the Debian policy for porting
> bug fixes from upstream, so I most likely missing important details
> here... (my apologies in advance).
> 
> I'm now reading more here:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#bug-handling
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/developer-duties.html#rc-bugs
> 
> 
> In the meantime, here is what I'm doing:
> 
> 
> 1)  Reducing the lintian warnings that Dominique pointed out.
> 
>      Currently I'm looking at the large number of Lintian warnings
>      on the i486 platform.  Just spawned a 32bits VM to look at this.
> 
> 
> 2)  Then will be setting the current fis-gtm-6.0-003 in a git branch.
>       So, no new content, just the current package in the format that
>       will facilitate having multiple versions side by side.
> 
> 
> 3)  Then will look at adding fis-gtm-6.1 in its own branch.
> 
> 
> Does this sound reasonable ?
> 
> 
>     Many Thanks
> 
> 
>         Luis

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