Bug#707752: pu: package distro-info-data/0.16~wheezy1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 00:24 +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> Hi Adam (2013.05.22_23:21:49_+0200)
> > What's the real-world impact of the dates being wrong in wheezy for
> > another few weeks? (i.e. the rationale for stable-updates rather than
> > just waiting for 7.1 to be released.)
> 
> Mostly just developer tools won't do the right thing when given a
> codename alias (like unstable). And when working on Ubuntu packages,
> tools that won't know the name of the development release.
> So small impact, and only on developers.

I assume unstable was only an example of a codename here, as the diff
doesn't look like it would affect parsing of "unstable" (unless I'm
missing something).

Hmmm. Data-only packages certainly make sense for stable-updates, it's
just a question of whether they all do. While we ponder that, please
feel free to go ahead with the upload, as per my earlier mail.

Regards,

Adam