Re: Django 1.0 - Possibility of a freeze exception?

["Ondrej Certik" <ondrej@certik.cz>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:34 PM, David Spreen <netzwurm@debian.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the Django project will release their version 1.0 in the beginning of
> next week. I know that usually no new upstream versions are allowed into
> Lenny at this point. I wonder though if Django could be an exception.
>
> 1. Django has a significant Debian user-base (638 pop contest
> installations when I last checked).
>
> 2. It is unlikely that version 0.96 will receive ongoing security
> support from upstream for long after 1.0.
>
> 3. Due to changes in the admin and form applications, Django 1.0 will be
> backwards incompatible with 0.96 and the old stable version's use in
> Debian might be questionable.
>
> 4. All packages that use Django are under our control (currently only in
> experimental).
>
> Let me know what you think and how to best approach the release managers
> with this.
>
> Most importantly, you can help this effort by testing the
> python-django_1.0~beta1-1 package that is currently in experimental. I
> am already using it in my own work.

I use Django from experimental regularly and it works just fine.

I am +1. But I cannot help, too busy.

Ondrej