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Re: Please approve oinkmaster 1.2-1 into sarge



Hi Javier,

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:30:04PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> As I stated in a previous e-mail oinkmaster 1.2-1 should be introduced into
> sarge 1.1-1 is not usable since the URLs it points to download Snort
> sources are not valid any longer (#305048) (9 days old)

> I don't plan to make a fix through t-p-u to specifically fix #305048, it's
> not worth my time and I'd rather dedicate my effort in other release areas
> (Release Notes, translations, etc.). I'd also rather have the 1.2-1 version
> in the new release than have a patched 1.1-1 version.

> It's a simple script that almost made it before the freeze so I don't see
> why it shouldn't be approved. If the release team believes the sarge
> version should _not_ be modified then I will ask for its removal by ftp
> masters.

> It's somewhat popular (1.03% of our users use it vs. 8.88% of ours users 
> which have snort installed) but I'd rather have people install the 
> packages from unstable or pull directly the script from upstream than 
> provide an out-of-date version.

Ok, approved.

Can we reasonably expect oinkmaster to continue to work throughout sarge's
lifetime, though, or is it possible there will be further changes that break
it?

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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