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Re: [Fwd: bacula_1.36.3-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED]



On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:17:06AM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote:
> >> Yes, there are many changes in the package, due to the fact that
> >> the html documentation was removed and replaced by LaTeX
> >> sources... which need latex2html(non-free) to build. I have fixed
> >> it by removing the requirement on latex2html and generating just
> >> PDF documentation for now. This is *much* better than the old
> >> one.

> > They may not seem like "that many changes" to you, but they're way
> > too much for the release team to reasonably review.

> Well, you could certainly ignore the doc changes, and i can refine the
> changes so that reviewing got easier (that is, remove all of the code
> which does not get into the binary packages from the diff and provide
> a "clean", commented changeset). Just tell me and i will produce it if
> it will ease your work
> (it might even become Policy thereafter ;) )

In practice, ignoring just the doc changes is awkward; the closest one can
come is probably to unpack old and new versions and use diff -uNr --exclude
doc instead of debdiff, but this may miss functional changes that it
shouldn't.

> > The release team's time is a finite resource, and it needs to be
> > focused on addressing release-critical issues.

> Yes, that is clear. And i feel that this discussion is probably taking
> up a bit too much of your time (more than i wanted, anyway)... sorry
> for that.

> A simple, "go ahead, backport the changes and upload a 1.36.2-3 to
> testing-proposed-updates" will do... even though i will have to
> explain why did Debian ship Bacula-1.36.2 instead to my users :-S
> (even if i backport all the changes, it will read '1.36.2')

Yes, please backport the RC fixes and upload to testing-proposed-updates.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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