Hi Bob, On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:32:26PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org wrote: > > * Where possible, avoid new major upstream versions of other packages. > > If in any doubt about whether an upgrade is appropriate, contact the > > release team. > I have been planning to package and upload two new upstream > versions of existing packages, and request the release team's OK. > 1. dictd-1.9.13 - According to the changelog, this release is > mainly code cleanup and bug fixes. The bug fixes appear to > apply to obscure bugs that have not been reported in Debian, > or to environments other than Debian. The only new feature is > a plugin that permits using a SQL server as a DICT database. > (Because access to header files and some programming knowledge > is needed to setup a plugin, I have shipped README files about > plugins in the Debian package, but have not included plugin > libraries or compiled plugins in the package.) As with any > new version, bugs are always possible. > 2. dict-foldoc - The FOLDOC does not have versions and releases > as usually understood. The dictionary is updated almost every > night, and is downloadable from the home page. I have planned > to release a new Debian package every 4 to 6 weeks, but have > seldom kept to that schedule. The current package is about 6 > months old. In the past, bugs filed against dict-foldoc have > almost all been requests for updating certain definitions or > for additional definitions, with an occasional minor packaging > bug. I do not believe a new dict-foldoc package would > present a problem for sarge. > Please let me know if you consider these packages acceptable for > upload. Since neither of these packages is at the base of a complicated dependency tree, there are no troubling outstanding bugs against the the packages, and these uploads don't seem to represent particularly major upstream changes, I can see no reason that these uploads would be objectionable. Regards, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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