On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 03:41:22AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hello Andrew. > > Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> (19/06/2012): > > I'm wondering if there's still time to update it (properly) before wheezy > > freezes? It looks like it would involve a small library transition. > > > > Assuming I get the maintainer's blessing to make such an upload, what say > > the release managers? > > This is horribly late. And knowing about the details would be a must at > this point anyway (… but well, yes, we remember the libaudit fiasco). What details would you like to know? > > I believe this has been tried once before by an NMUer, and went horribly > > wrong. If I understand correctly, this is because they didn't take the > > library transition into consideration. I won't make that mistake :-) > > As {a,the} maintainer of the X server, I wouldn't enjoy having to deal > with possible audit-related breakages when trying to polish the X server > and the X drivers for wheezy. Would you expect breakage though? If the transition is handled correctly, I wouldn't have thought this would be a huge deal (but then, this would be a new experience for me). > All in all, I think “far too late” is likely to be everyone's answer. > See last paragraph of: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/05/msg00004.html > > And it's been repeatedly announced we would likely freeze in June… I completely understand. I just thought I'd ask the question. So would introducing this into unstable have to wait until after the freeze, or after the release of wheezy? regards Andrew
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