Hi, On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 07:07:50PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > As you may or may not know the ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk packages in > lenny are in a suboptimal state. It boils down to that they contain the > 'current' versions of other packages, they have been last updated well > before lenny's release and hence don't include the most recent versions. > For squeeze the plan is to do this better and for wheezy the plan is to > remove them altogether, but this mail is about the lenny situation. how will it be done for squeeze? Roll-ups as security updates? One update per point release? > I would like to put updated versions of ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk into a > next stable point update that change nothing besides update the included > packages to their latest versions. Of course these included packages > themselves are per definition already part of stable(-security). > > I'd like to ask for approval to upload these packages. I've created an > update for the smaller of the two, ia32-libs-gtk: > http://loeki.tv/~thijs/ia32/ Looks ok'ish. I'll do a final review once it hits the queue, though, so please go ahead. > If you agree that the general idea is acceptable then I'll also build an > update for ia32-libs. Please submit a debdiff for ia32-libs prior to the upload. I know that it'll show a lot of "binary files differ", but that's ok; I'll check that in the queue. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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