On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:51:13 +0000 Robert Lemmen <robertle@semistable.com> wrote: > #695716 is a GFDL-bug, upstream has relicensed their docs and released a > new version 0.6.7, I have updated the package and uploaded to unstable. ... which won't get into testing. > unfortunately, the new version also contains other changes, so I don't > think 0.6.7 can progress to testing. Why couldn't an upload of cgdb 0.6.6-3 have been made with only the changes to the docs licensing? > I was hoping we could wheezy-ignore this bug, as it essentially now is a > false positive: Not in testing. > everyone has a dfsg-free license to the docs contents by > means of the new package or the upstream webpage, and a fixed version is > in the archive. Users should not have to upgrade stable to new testing (Jessie) to fix RC bugs which could have been fixed in stable. Nor should users be expected to inspect details of the package in versions outside stable to make decisions on the licensing of packages in stable. (Otherwise, we'd keep all the copyright files on a server somewhere and save many Gb of archive space.) If Debian allowed bugs fixed in unstable only to no longer be RC, we might already have released but users would have been no better off. > the alternative is to split 0.6.6 into two packages, which is a bit > messy considering that it is only for one version... Would have been easier if you'd not uploaded 0.6.7 and then filed an unblock request bug at release.debian.org to allow an upload of 0.6.6-3 to be unblocked, then upload 0.6.7 sometime after 0.6.6-3 had been unblocked and migrated. Now, the bug still isn't fixed in testing and an upload to testing-proposed-updates is going to be needed. Alternatively, cgdb could simply be removed from testing. Whatever happens, it will be a lot easier for the release team to decide on this is you file a bug against release.debian.org instead of this issue getting lost in the traffic from the mailing list. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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