Bug#771944: Following FusionForge 5.3 stable branch
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 11:03:59PM +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 06:52:26PM +0100, beuc@debian.org wrote:
> > We're (upstream-ly) maintaining a stable branch for FusionForge,
> > called "5.3", which the Debian package currently follows.
> > (incidentally Lolando and I are both upstream and debian devs)
> >
> > We're currently pushing only bugfixes to this branch (some of them
> > qualify as "RC", some don't), because it's deployed at several large
> > client installs already and we want to make sure we don't break
> > anything.
> >
> > It makes sense that users benefit from the quality of this branch, so
> > we'd like to know to what extent following this branch is compatible
> > with the Freeze.
>
> The compatibility benchmark you need to meet is the freeze policy, which
> you can find at https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html.
>
> If there are exceptional circumstances it's worth asking on a case-by-case
> basis.
I already read the policy, and since it sounds sensible to follow the
upstream Stable branch for the debian Stable release, I'm asking.
So, I take it we need to maintain a branch off the upstream stable
branch, that will not include most user-related bugfixes (but include
the piupart-related nitpicks ;))?
(Btw, by all means I suggest you improve your communication. This
"no_greetings+RTFM" answer you just gave is as close to my support
team's initial auto-reply as one can be :/)
Cheers!
Sylvain
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