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Re: Buster freeze and the DOG packages



Le samedi 05 janvier 2019 à 16:54 +0100, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> > * Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> [2018-12-30 18:09]:
> 
> > I think that we have followed a tacit policy of only uploading 
> > versions that actually fix bugs or that correspond to new upstream 
> > versions.
> > 
> > However, almost all of the DOG packages have accumulated many changes 
> > in Git that are not yet released, mainly related to more recent 
> > Standards-Version and to newer debhelper compatibility levels.
> > 
> > I am wondering whether we should release new versions of our packages 
> > with those accumulated changes before the Buster freeze, whose 
> > timeline is:
> > 
> >  2019-01-12 – Transition freeze
> >  2019-02-12 – Soft-freeze
> >  2019-03-12 – Full-freeze
> 
> I went around and uploaded 67 of the packages maintained by the DOG. It 
> was done in a semi-automatic way and I hope that I have minimally screwed 
> up things.  The changes accumulated in Git are flushed now and all the 
> uploaded packages have migrated to debhelper compat level 12.

Thanks for these uploads.

> The following packages have been left out of this mass-upgrade:

>   - dynare: Lintian issue doc-base-file-references-missing-file

Ok, will do.

>   - octave: Better keeping off of this automated upgrade

I just did an octave upload with accumulated fixes. Note that I did not
bump to debhelper compat level 12, because dh_dwz fails and I don't
have the time to investigate. Let's keep that for the bullseye cycle.

Best,

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