On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 01:22:32PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:07:35PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > I would like to renew my request for a freeze exception. > > > > Basically, no. If you have some specific fixes for RC bugs, these may be > considered via t-p-u. If not, would you like me to go ahead with the > removal hint indicated earlier? > Well, it has already been removed. It was hinted out by dato. But let me make sure that I understand what is going on. deliciousapi 1.5.0 was allowed in to Lenny [0]: 6 files changed, 551 insertions(+), 340 deletions(-) Without letting this in to Lenny, deliciousapi would have been usesless to users for the entire life of Lenny. openssh 5.1p1 was allowd into Lenny [1]: 197 files changed, 11159 insertions(+), 3564 deletions(-) Colin noted: "I've had a lot of requests for OpenSSH 4.9 or better in lenny, since it adds the much-clamoured-for ChrootDirectory feature." So, not even fixing bugs, but providing a new desirable feature. swfdec 0.6.8 was allowed into Lenny [2]: 158 files changed, 4837 insertions(+), 4879 deletions(-) Excluding changes to tests and docs: 24 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) Withholding these fixes would not have made the package useless for current users. samba 3.2.1 was allowed into Lenny [3]: 56 files changed, 774 insertions(+), 517 deletions(-) Additionally, vorlon noted: "while this is not guaranteed to be a bugfix only branch, the changes here are not extraneous." The changes to releaseforge look like this: 19 files changed, 381 insertions(+), 192 deletions(-) Of that, only 128 lines is not related to #492933. The unrelated change has to do with handling Multipart POST so that text (uploaded for changelog, release notes and project news) can be properly encoded and not let things like ampersands cause failed uploads. So, I could back out the 128 lines for the multipart post handling, but in the spirit of allowing fixes to unfiled important bugs into Lenny, I think that it should be left in. Besides, removing releaseforge from testing now leaves its Etch users without a working supported upgrade path and without a working package in the release at all. Since deliciousapi was allowed to go into Lenny (instead of being removed like releaseforge), I would like to ask for some consistency on the part of the release team. Regards, -Roberto [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/08/msg00309.html [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/08/msg00431.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/08/msg00055.html [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/08/msg00321.html -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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