On 12-07-21 at 01:53pm, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Then reject it, if you find it too unpleasing!!! > > I hope you realize that Cyril is only doing his job. You're not being > helpful and albeit I'm tempted to just say "No problem" to that > statement it would still leave an RC bug open. Sorry for my brevity and for the trailing exclamation marks. I read the mail from Cyril and was puzzled as to how to react on it. Let me try in a nicer manner to elaborate on my confusion...: Is the noise of the non-crucial changes so problematic (a.k.a. unpleasing) that the release team considers the current package unsuitable for getting an exception from the freeze? I honestly did not consider that "noise" as "significant changes not related to the bug to be fixed", as it is phrased at the fine http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html. Do the release team consider the package unsuitable for freeze exception due to the lack of bug reference in the changelog (the bug was unfortunately unavailable to reference at the time the package was produced and I honestly was unaware that such reference was problematic for the release team to get passed in the freeze exception bugreport)? Do the release team consider the package unsuitable for freeze exception due to the user-only oriented changelog entry - i.e. lack of verbose enough details in changelog for release managers to follow _how_ the issue was fixed? Would it be more helpful of me to upload another package release that rephrased the changelog to be more helpful for release managers to understand how non-newest-debhelper-style packaging was performed internally? Should I do that in addition to the user-oriented changelog entry or instead of it? Would it be more helpful if I had not asked these questions but instead just uploaded a new package fixing these three issues raised by Cyril? Especially that last question I ask explicitly so that I can most smoothly help you guys do your jobs for other of packages I may be involved in requesting freeze exceptions for. Kind regards, and thanks for your great work, Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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