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Re: Bug#520753: Potential serious bug on ghostscript-cups



On 12-07-30 at 10:03pm, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> 
> wrote:
> > On 12-07-29 at 09:04pm, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> >> Le dimanche, 29 juillet 2012 18.03:16, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
> >> > > > For Wheezy we should probably aim for the uglier but much 
> >> > > > simpler solution.  the "master" branch is not intended for 
> >> > > > Wheezy, I will use a separate "master-wheezy" for that.
> >> > >
> >> > > I think I disagree. The patch I propose makes ghostscript-cups 
> >> > > rely on cups' postinst which is already proven working by more 
> >> > > than 14 packages, all of them already in Wheezy. I think this 
> >> > > is a patch the Release Team can accept and a patch that makes 
> >> > > Wheezy a better release by reducing useless code duplication in 
> >> > > maintainer scripts.
> >> >
> >> > Oh, ok.
> >> >
> >> > Would you mind file the bugreport requesting freeze exception, 
> >> > when I have uploaded it to unstable?  I am quite lousy at arguing 
> >> > such cases for the Release Managers :-/
> >>
> >> Which other changes do you plan to include towards Wheezy? I can 
> >> argue for that one, but would have hard time for others (as I have 
> >> mostly no clue about ghostscript). But sure, I can file the bug and 
> >> argue for it in front of the Release Team.
> >
> > I have no other changes planned targeted Wheezy.  I dare not include 
> > any non-RC bugfixes, and would also prefer the previously proposed 
> > two-line patch for this one to keep burden of Release Managers to a 
> > minimum. That's why I request that you do the talking when insisting 
> > on the more elegant but also larger fix.
> 
> Could you include patch for bug#682407 ?

If you argue about it towards the Release team, yes.

The bug is not serious enough that I would've chosen to include it 
myself.

Ok? Shall I include it?


 - Jonas

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