Bug#520753: Potential serious bug on ghostscript-cups
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> wrote:
> 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?
Yes please, it will help debugging next stable version, and it is
trivial and well tested on other os.
Bastien
>
> - Jonas
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