Re: maxima 'serious' bug fix missed freeze
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:54:57PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:36:41PM -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > Greetings! I uploaded a fix for 591862 together with a minor upstream
> > point release that just missed the freeze. Would it be possible to
> > permit the fixed version in unstable to migrate, or should a patch to
> > the testing version be prepared? In case of the latter, I cannot
> > upload such to unstable due to the version number mismatch, yet
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/09/msg00000.html
> >
> > seems to instruct thus.
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate letting the unstable version migrate if
> > possible. This is a leaf package, and a notable bug upstream has been
> > fixed as well.
>
> While I support this request, I am afraid that the changes look to be
> too many, at least to me. I tried to isolate the relevant changes, but
> it has become very difficult since a lot of files (several possibly
> autogenerated). I was also unable to figure out which bug was fixed,
> in order to try and isolate the bug fix.
>
I agree, this is almost impossible to review. We'll have to go down the
t-p-u route.
Neil
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