Re: RFS: libnet 1.1.6 (try #2)
On Friday 20 Jul 2012 20:44:28 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:44:15AM +0100, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
> > Can someone please upload the new version of libnet to unstable?
>
> This package appears to exist in wheezy already. For such packages,
> uploads to unstable should be reserved for changes that are intended to
> transition to wheezy. The changes you list are very unlikely to earn a
> freeze exception from the release managers; see
> http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html.
>
> For this upload, experimental would be the better upload target. It is the
> preferred place for uploads that are not intended for wheezy.
That's why I sent the (initial) request in June. The goal was to have a
multiarch libnet in wheezy.
Anyway...
> > * Compile with -Werror
>
> While -Werror is useful during development, it's a bad idea in Debian
> builds as new compiler versions can suddenly make the package FTBFS (due
> to newly added warnings).
Right. I'll reupload soon without -Werror.
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