Re: gettext, autopoint and cvs
On 2010-05-18 15:52 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Sorry, I missed your mail (I don't read -release very often, please feel free
> to Cc me). I am reading it after uploading gettext 0.18-1 today.
>
> This is from the changelog:
>
> * Changed autopoint so that it uses git instead of cvs. As the autopoint
> package was created to avoid gettext to depend on cvs, we are not going
> to make gettext to depend on git now. Moreover, as packages using
> autopoint and still having cvs in their build-depends would not work
> anymore even if autopoint is still kept in the gettext package, this
> effectively puts an end to the transition period: packages using
> autopoint must build-depend on autopoint now.
>
> However, as I was asking for permission to make those bugs RC, and I
> believed there was no reply, I've made a random bug against gettext
> (#581637 seemed appropriate) to be of serious severity to prevent it
> from entering testing.
>
> This means if we were to release squeeze as stable today, everything
> would work. I think this allows us to not consider the bugs as RC.
This seems wrong to me. The packages will FTBFS in unstable now, right?
If so, IMO the bugs should be raised to serious and tagged "sid".
> However, gettext 0.18 will not enter testing until the remaining bugs
> are fixed.
You want to block #581637 by these bugs.
Cheers,
Sven
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