Control: severity -1 normal Justification: New upstream releases requests are normal level bugs https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities Dear Martin-Éric, Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> writes: > Package: openshot-qt > Version: 2.5.1+dfsg1-1 > Severity: important > > Upon startup, OpenShot tells us that upstream 3.1.1 is available. Debian currently has 2.6.1 in Sid/Bookworm. Bookworm is approaching the final freeze. > While not a maintainer of OpenShot, I am part of the Debian Multimedia Team, and I'm writing this reply in response to the urgency you've expressed. Unfortunately testing/bookworm is now in the Hard Freeze, and only "small, targeted fixes" are permitted. https://release.debian.org/bookworm/freeze_policy.html A major version upgrade definitely doesn't meet the criteria for the freeze; however, at this time, OpenShot 3.1.1 could be uploaded to experimental (recommended), or to sid/unstable. The latter is not recommended, because this is where "small targeted fixes" destined for bookworm would be staged. Yeah, I know it's an unfortunate situation... One wants to switch to testing at a time when it's very stable (fewer potentially breaking changes), in other words the freeze, but by that's time it's too late for new major versions. It's even a fight to get any KDE Plasma LTS changes approved, even though those are strictly bugfix and not feature releases. If future releases are anything like past releases then I'd recommend filing a bug like this late in the year before the release. Also, if the maintainer[s] of OpenShot are anything like me then they would appreciate notification that users really want the new version :) Finally, it may be that OpenShot is a salvaging candidate: https://wiki.debian.org/PackageSalvaging Regards, Nicholas
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