Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:26:23AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> Markus.Grunwald@pruftechnik.com writes:
>> > So I beg you to let kdevelop 4:3.4.0-1 (or later ;) ) come into etch.
>> As this is a new minor upstream release, we will not unfreeze this
>> package.
> Doesn't the sentence "This bug (and others that were fixed, too)
> caused kdevelop to be quite unusable for us, because we couldn't debug
> our software." qualify this as something slightly more important than
> a minor update?
I haven't said that this is a minor, I just commented on the fact that
upstream bumped the minor version number.
> Our choices are 1. not releasing etch with kdevelop at all;
Worst option.
> 2. releasing a version so buggy as to be "quite unusable", even to its
> maintainers;
What we are going to do.
> 3. releasing with a version specifically intended to fix important
> bugs. Are we really doing a service to our users by choosing number
> 2?
he@ries:~$ bin/d kdevelop | filterdiff -i *.cpp | diffstat
[...]
521 files changed, 51835 insertions(+), 65763 deletions(-)
Are you really sure that there is no new RC bug hidden in these changes?
Looking at bugs like #412810, I'm pretty sure that you aren't.
Marc
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