Bug#773203: unblock: php5/5.6.4+dfsg-0+deb8u1
Hi Adam,
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014, at 21:56, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
> On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 16:01 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > this is a preliminary request to unblock php5/5.6.4+dfsg-1 that hasn't
> > been release yet.
> [...]
> > The option I would like to avoid is backporting the patches for
> > php5/5.6.2+dfsg-1 and then flushing all that with next security update
> > after a jessie is released as stable. This seem to be an extra work
> > that could be possibly avoided.
> >
> > So, the question is whether you concur with security team and you will
> > allow uploading 5.6.4+dfsg-0+deb8u1 to t-p-u. I understand we might
> > face some extra breakages (although I hope not), but this will happen
> > anyway with next security upload.
>
> I did mention this on IRC, but as it hasn't had any follow-up there -
Sorry for that, we are moving our offices, so everything is in
turmoil...
> why would t-p-u be involved? If we were to accept 5.6.4 (and possibly
> further updates) in to jessie prior to the release, the simplest
> solution would seem to be to unblock the package from unstable.
>
> It's entirely possible that I'm missing something, in which case please
> enlighten me. :-)
No enlightening today, sorry :). You are right. Somehow I suspected
(without checking) that PHP has too many build-deps that at least one
will be broken :). That seems not to be the case, so normal update from
unstable is still possible.
Cheers,
--
Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
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