Bug#622371: transition: webkit

[Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com>]

Steve McIntyre wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 07:41:15AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> >Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> >
> >> On 04/13/2011 01:40 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> >> > Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Package: release.debian.org
> >> >> Severity: normal
> >> >> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> >> >> Usertags: transition
> >> >>
> >> >> I plan to upload webkit 1.3.x (soon to be 1.4.0) to unstable. What
> >> >> this involves:
> >> >
> >> > I would prefer to stick with 1.2.x for the time being
> >> 
> >> Until when?
> >
> >Sometime between December this year and Feb 2012 (or until the
> >complaining gets too noisy).
> 
> Right. Are you deliberately trying to stall all development, or does
> it just appear that way?

I fail to see how proposing a more measured approach to testing
security for two very problematic packages qualifies as stalling all
development.

Yes, it delays newer versions of those packages and their dependencies
for a while, but I don't see how that is a real problem.  The transition
is still going to happen. Testing of those packages is still going to
happen. A year is a very long time.  I fail to see why two years must
be viewed as a requirement.

"Stall" is the wrong kind of framing since that connotes that some kind
of catastrophe (plane crash) is about to happen.

Mike