Hi, I would like to request a freeze exception for the DAViCal and AWL packages for Squeeze to accept version 0.9.9.3 of DAViCal and 0.45 of AWL. The following points apply: 1) I am the upstream developer and the Debian packager. This is not an ideal situation, as everyone knows, and in particular it means that bugs tend to be filed upstream, rather than against the Debian package. There are significant issues with the 0.9.9 version in Debian which are fixed in 0.9.9.3, including some security issues and some minor potential data loss problems. The six sporadic months of development in between were largely stability and correctness work, although some notable functionality was also added to support CardDAV. 2) Neither DAViCal nor AWL made it into Lenny, so users running DAViCal on Lenny will in most cases be using my personal repository and in all likelihood will already be running the newer release. 3) All packages have been in unstable for more than 10 days without any bugs filed. 4) DAViCal software is tracking a set of standards which are themselves undergoing reasonably rapid evolution (well: rapid for standards :-) and the current version in unstable matches the current incarnation of those standards now. In particular the webdav sync protocol draft has changed in the last six months and will become a heavily used feature within calendaring software. While the early implementation included within 0.9.9 was valuable in informing some of those changes, it was necessary to introduce a subtle incompatibility between the versions and existing client support for that early draft is unlikely to last far into the life of Squeeze. http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/davical.html http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/awl.html The AWL libraries are packaged separately to DAViCal, since although DAViCal is their sole dependency in Debian there are other non-Debian applications which use various parts of their functionality. Thanks for your time, consideration and effort :-) Andrew McMillan. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com +64(272)DEBIAN If you're careful enough, nothing bad or good will ever happen to you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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