Re: RFS: yajl (updated package)
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 04:29:18 am George Danchev wrote:
> > Dear mentors,
>
> Hi,
>
> > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.6+git20090925-1
> > of my package "yajl".
> >
> > It builds these binary packages:
> > libyajl-dev - Yet Another JSON Library - development files
> > libyajl-doc - Yet Another JSON Library - library documentation
> > libyajl1 - Yet Another JSON Library
> > libyajl1-dbg - Yet Another JSON Library - debugging symbols
> > yajl-tools - Yet Another JSON Library - tools
> >
> > The package appears to be lintian clean.
> >
> > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yajl
> > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian
> > unstable main contrib non-free - dget
> >
> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/yajl/yajl_1.0.6+git200
> >90925-1 .dsc
> >
> > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
>
> Thanks for your work, but I don't see much of gain to upload a VCS
> snapshot, which doesn't bring anything more than extending already
> existing enumeration (yajl_gen.*). I also saw that one of your
> patches was accepted upstream, but we already have that applied for
> the package currently found in sid, so that does not make any
> difference with respect to uploading a new package to sid. There are
> no any critical bugs nor appealing new features, so I doubt that
> would worth buildd's time and users installing it as well. So, I
> think we should wait for 1.0.6 release instead and be fairly
> conservative, which is a good thing to do with library packages. Is
> that fine with you?
Hi,
If it were just a matter of upstream applying one of my patches I'd
agree, but the upload has a little more than that.
The last version uploaded to Debian was 1.0.5. This version, 1.0.6,
fixes how the tools parse options (you can use more than one option at a
time), json_reformat returns an error on invalid input, and the library
returns an error if you give it invalid floating point values.
After upstream released 1.0.6, I poked him again about the non-free RFC
and he removed it. So the choice was between another dfsg tarball or a
VCS snapshot of 1.0.6 + 1 commit. I opted for the snapshot.
Does that justify an upload?
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