On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 02:51:43 +0300 "Andrej N. Gritsenko" <andrej@rep.kiev.ua> wrote: > Hello, Debian Release Team! Was there something about the thread on -devel which wasn't clear? > I'm talking about libfm and pcmanfm which entered freeze state two > months ago and published as 1.0 release in beginning of August. i.e. too late. > only by developers and testers. You may look into pcmanfm bugtracker at > Sourceforge to see how many bugs were fixed (some of them were reported > to Debian BTS as well) - crashes, locks of X server, huge memleaks... The ones reported to the Debian BTS are not release critical, so no update is necessary. > That was said in mailing list there was a pre-approval for inclusion > of stable releases of those packages into unstable then to Wheezy. Of these actual packages? There seems to be no link to such a statement. Packages with updates already in Debian unstable when the freeze was announced got pre-approval for inclusion into Wheezy. If packages are to be updated in Wheezy afterwards, there need to be bug reports in Debian which are deemed release critical and an upload to unstable which *only* fixes those bugs. A new upstream release is not generally considered as an exception to the freeze at this stage of the release cycle. Specific fixes for specific bugs in the Debian BTS is what the freeze is all about. > As > maintainers are still busy and I have the source package which was tested > thoroughly for compilation and upgrading on Debian Testing, I would like > to know how I can help in that. I've uploaded the packages onto Mentors > site already (pcmanfm package includes backport patch from upstream for > the abovementioned crash). Bug number in the Debian BTS? > Tell me what I should do next, please. Thank you in advance! There are currently no RC bugs against these packages filed in Debian. There is nothing to fix. There are, however, many other packages in Debian which *do* have release critical bugs. You could always turn your development skills onto some of those packages. That way, the release team would be able to release Wheezy sooner and we'd all be happy. Please wait for Wheezy to be released with the current versions of these packages and then work with the existing maintainers to get the updates into Jessie. If there are user requests for backports of the updates to Wheezy, those can be handled after the release. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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