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Re: letting texmacs 1.0.5 into sarge?



Hi Ralf,

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 08:08:31PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:51:30AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:28:26AM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:

> > > I uploaded texmacs 1.0.5-2 into unstable on Wednesday April 27. It
> > > is autobuilt on all architectures (including arm, contrary to
> > > what the Excuses say). The uplaod was done with urgency=low.
> > > There are two binary packages (texmacs and texmacs-common).
> > > Is it possible to still let it into sarge?

> > Only if you can explain why a new upstream release is needed for sarge.  The
> > changelog gives nothing to indicate this should be a high priority.

> There are quite some improvements in the new upstream version 1.0.5
> which are only listed on the project homepage (copy attached to this
> mail).

> Besides it closes two bugs (none of which RC) which are now tagged "sarge",
> #302566 and #272652. I forgot to mention this in the changelog since
> these bugs where already fixed in the "experimental" distribution.

> Most (or all) of the upstream improvements have already been distributed
> earlier through packages in the experimenal distribution, and hence are
> already tested by users of the experimental packages.

Sorry, there are too many release-critical issues that need to be dealt with
to justify spending the time to review such a large diff as the one for
texmacs 1.0.5-2, particularly for the low-priority issues you mention above.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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