Re: Freeze-exception for Opam

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

On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 10:41 +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> Le 2014-10-25 15:17, Mehdi Dogguy a écrit :
> > A short time after my upload, upstream released 1.2.0. I expected
> > 1.2.0~rc4 to be close to 1.2.0. It turns out that both are generated
> > from the same git commit. I can live with 1.2.0~rc4 in Jessie but I
> > think that it will create some confusion among the users and won't be
> > ideal. Since there are no source changes, updating to 1.2.0 in Jessie
> > should be "harmless".
> > 
> > Dear team, would you allow me to upload 1.2.0 to Jessie after 
> > migration
> > of 1.2.0~rc4?
> > 
> The question still stands. Additionally to bumping the source version
> number, I'd also like to fix #766985 which is minor. I'd like to have a
> rough answer before I upload to know if I can include the little fix
> for the mentioned bug.

The Suggests don't really qualify; the Recommends change is arguably
higher severity if the default configuration expects the package to be
present.

I could be persuaded to unblock those changes, but the upload would need
to happen /soon/ (and have an accompanying unblock bug).

Regards,

Adam