Hi Milan, On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:10:03AM +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote: > Please allow the crm114 20050415-4 package to enter testing when it > satisfies the general rules for entering testing. The package was > uploaded before the freeze, i.e. to unstable. > The version 20040816.BlameClockworkOrange-auto.3-1 currently present in > testing is unsuitable for the release from my package maintainer's point > of view, because it contains an old non-upstream branch version, which > can cause future upgrade problems if it enters stable. The current > presence of that version in testing is not my fault, the previous > maintainer has orphaned the package only recently. > To my best knowledge the 20050415-4 version is a good candidate for the > stable Debian release, despite 20050415-1 was a new upstream version and > contained significant Debian packaging changes against the old Debian > version. Users have requested new upstream version packaging long ago > (see bugs #275238 and #281619) and the new upstream version contains a > lot of bug fixes against the old version present in testing (from the > bugs reported to Debian see #244167 and #301630). > Since I prefer not to release the crm114 package with sarge at all to > releasing 20040816.BlameClockworkOrange-auto.3-1, there's no real risk > in putting the new version to testing -- if a release critical problem > occurs with the package, it can be simply removed from testing. So > there's no reason to hold the 20040816.BlameClockworkOrange-auto.3-1 > version in testing. Approved, with the understanding that it will be removed from the release at the first sign of trouble. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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