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 -- BOFH #56: Electricians made popcorn in the power supply
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