Re: Please unblock virtualbox-ose
Hi Bernd,
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 09:30:50AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> Give it more time for testing in unstable then.
That's one of the things that's being considered, if you'd carefully
read the thread.
> Virtualbox is important enough to have the latest version of it in the
> next release.
>From someone's perspective, every package is important enough to have
the latest version in the next release. Our job, unfortunately, is to
ensure the stability of the release as a whole, not one particular
package.
> Remember that the SC says something about doing the best for our
> users,
Um... I don't think I can reply sensibly to this point.
> not being able to review every single patch. It is a bugfix release
> from upstream and not something which adds a lot of new features and
> the changes are well documented.
I think we can both agree that there are a *lot* of new changes.
> You could at least have asked if there is away to get a
> reviable list of patches. Really a shame that Debian will ship with a large
> number of bugs in an important piece of software again.
>
Again, I'm not going to be able to comment sensibly on this section.
Neil
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