Re: Unblock request for vim/2:7.2.010-1

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

James Vega wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 01:23:42AM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> James Vega <jamessan@debian.org> writes:
>>
>>> Although this is a new upstream version, their are various important
>>> changes (including fixes for and related to grave bugs) in the package
>>> since 1:7.1.314-3 and relatively few non-bug fix changes in the upstream
>>> release.  Full dpkg-parsechangelog of new versions below.
>>>
>>> people.d.o has the diffs for the source[0]
>> [...]
>>> [0] http://people.debian.org/~jamessan/tmp/vim.diff.gz
>>  74 files changed, 2838 insertions(+), 1532 deletions(-)
>>
>> Rejected. This is in no way suitable for a freeze exception. #500381
>> will need a tpu upload.
> 
> What of the other issues I listed in my initial mail?  Are any of those
> definite yes/no or shall I just prepare a candidate tpu package and see
> what the RMs think?

There are 2 important guidelines: the freeze guidelines and it should be
reviewable. The rejection is only valid for the version in unstable, if
you can prepare a tpu candidate with a reasonable diff that complies
with the freeze guidelines, it should get accepted.

Cheers

Luk