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Re: request ublock for releaseforge/1.3-1



Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@connexer.com> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:56:19PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@connexer.com> writes:
>> > As of about one week ago, version 1.3 is now available from upstream
>> > [2].  This version works with all the changes to SourceForge's site.
>> > My first instinct was to simply request removal of the package.
>> > However, that is undesirable as it has already shipped with a stable
>> > release (version 1.1-1 is in Etch).  Removal from Lenny would leave Etch
>> > users without any sort of upgrade path.  Leaving the current version in
>> > Lenny would, however, result in a package that is completely broken for
>> > Lenny's entire life cycle.
>> Pushing an untested package into the frozen lenny is not an option, so
>> removal seems to be the most reasonable course.
>> 
> OK.  Based on #492933, I asked for a removal from testing.  After that,
> I asked about the possibility for inclusion in Lenny on #debian-release
> and the impression that I got from vorlon and dato was that if the
> changes were limited, that it would be possible to get an exception.

The changes aren't limited, that's the problem here. We have a few
hundred lines of code changes in the diff.

> (please note that upstream never released version 1.2, he went from
> 1.1 a little over two years ago to 1.3 just last week).

Interestingly enough, upstream has a changelog entry for version 1.2.

Marc
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