Bug#767063: unblock: claws-mail/3.11.1-1

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2014-10-29 10:01, Ricardo Mones wrote:
> Hi Niels,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:29:58PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
>>  [...]
>>
>> Hi Ricardo,
>>
>> The changes seems to contain quite a bit of "noise".  Would you be able
>> to provide a filtered debdiff between the version in unstable and
>> testing?  This might give us a better idea of what we will be accepting.
> 
> Previous unstable (3.11.0-1) would have naturally migrated to testing
> this week if nothing done. And that's the version to be replaced by
> current upload (3.11.1-1).
> 

We have clearly stated time and again:


"""
*Remember*: On the 5th of November, the version of your package *in
testing* must be in its desired state for Jessie.
"""

We did this because we learned from a painful experience with Wheezy.
Things in unstable do not always migrate when people expect it too.
Yours probably would, but we had far too many issues with it last release.

> Don't really understand why are you comparing with current testing
> (3.10.1-4) which by default would never have been the candidate
> version to be released as stable.
> 

Because that is the difference you are asking me to accept.  If you had
come to us *before* uploading 3.11.1 and said:

"Hi,

claws-mail/3.10.4-1 is going to migrate on its own before the freeze.
However, I would prefer that we jump directly to version 3.11.1-1 due to
X.  The difference between 3.10.4-1 and 3.11.1-1 is this minor difference.
"

Then the premise would have been entirely different and I would have a
different basis for my decisions.  I might have advised you to let
3.10.4-1 migrate as it with the promise of accepting the diff if it
migrated (assuming X was not a "major" issue), or said "ok, we will take
it 3.11.1-1 immediately and we will unblock it now".


> This looks like I'm being "punished" with a bigger debdiff (minor
> version change vs micro version change) just for acting fast to
> avoid undesired changes in testing. Doesn't look fair :)
> 

I understand how you could feel that way.  Unfortunately there will
always be a "gap" near the freeze, where this kind of situation can happy.

Unfortunately, we do not have the capacity to compensate as we get quite
a few requests.

> Or do you really mean debdiff between 3.11.0-1 and 3.11.1-1?
> 

No, I truly mean the debdiff between 3.10.4-1 and 3.11.1-1.

Sorry,
~Niels