Bug#678624: pu: package xz-utils/5.0.0-3
[it's generally considered polite to note when you're adding CCs...]
On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 19:07 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> In March, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 14:40 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
> >> * "What this most needs is more testing. I know you have tested it,
> >> but I haven't had time to test it myself. I should have some in
> >> the next month and do not think this should roll out to s-p-u until
> >> then."
> >
> > I'm currently tending towards this, fwiw. As I mentioned on IRC, I've
> > added getting some testing done to my to-do list; the past few days have
> > just been a little... occupied.
>
> Ping. I am personally confident about this update being safe and about
> being capable of dealing with any unforseen problems with it quickly. I
> am the Debian maintainer of xz-utils (though I'd welcome comaintainers),
> so that confidence should count for something.
Yes, sorry. I also no longer have any suitable squeeze setups for doing
testing in. :(
Please go ahead with the upload.
> I might be missing something, but it looks to me like something is going
> wrong in the pu/spu process when this kind of request gets stalled in an
> unactionable way for more than a year. That's not meant to take away
> from the other good work the team does, but maybe a call for help on
> debian-devel-announce@ or some other kind of recruiting effort would
> be warranted?
Stable work suffered somewhat during the freeze, as it's the same people
handling both sets of updates (which I don't think is a bad thing on the
whole). I've been trying to get back up to speed after the release, but
underestimated the number of updates we'd ended up deferring to a point
release during the freeze.
Updates to oldstable and larger updates both tend to suffer due to
taking longer to deal with (in the latter case) and generally being less
urgent (in the former, due to the gap between point releases). I'm not
sure that throwing more people at the problem will necessarily solve
either of those in a useful way in the long term.
Regards,
Adam
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