Re: freeze exception request: xserver-xorg-video-geode
On 8/16/08, Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es> wrote:
> * Martin-Éric Racine [Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:21:11 +0300]:
>
>
> > Actually, now is precisely the right time to do this. It had been
> > requested for a long time, but I had postponed doing this until Lenny
> > would be close to release, so as to avoid breaking backportability.
> > Now that Lenny is about to become the stable release, it's no longer
> > an issue.
>
>
> Sure, you are free to ignore the freeze guidelines if that's your wish,
> but I'm afraid I'm not unblocking this, see below.
The guidelines were followed. This change is not intrusive.
> > Anyhow, it reproduces what the standard XSF scripts do and, yes, very
> > much needs to be included to enable bin-NMU and automated X server
> > version bumps.
>
>
> We're not doing more X server version bumps in this release cycle, so
> the fix above is irrelevant for Lenny and can be done the day after
> Lenny is released without any inconvenience.
It's also relevant for bin-NMU, which can be necessary whenever there
is a security release for X core. That is precisely why this was
requested. Again, I had only held this off until the very end because
too may people depend upon this being backportable to whatever is the
latest stable release.
> > > +xserver-xorg-video-geode (2.10.0-6) experimental; urgency=low
> > > +
> > > + * Bumped Build-Depends on X core to >= 2:1.4.99 for experimental.
> > > +
> > > + -- Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:40:34 +0300
> > > +
> > > +xserver-xorg-video-geode (2.10.0-5) experimental; urgency=low
> > > +
> > > + * Bumped Provides to server-2.9 for upcoming X.org 1.5 core ABI.
> > > +
> > > + -- Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi> Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:16:50 +0300
>
> > > Please don't include changelog entries for changes that are not included
> > > on the package.
>
> > Replaced by the above transition and necessary to show what happened
> > between -4 and -7.
>
>
> That is so wrong. If you include those changelog entries, you have to
> explicitly mention that you are reverting them.
Making this more explicit can be easily done. It's only a question of
how I word the changelog entry about migrating to XSF ways for shlibs,
versus updating them manually in debian/control.
--
Martin-Éric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi
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