Bug#818908: jessie-pu: package dpkg/1.17.27
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Hi Guillem,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 16:49:35 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Here's a proposed dpkg 1.17.27, with cherry picked fixes from master
> (already in unstable). These include fixes for regressions, memory
> leaks, portability, interaction with tools such as GNU tar or the
> system shell, install-info transition, and a sync of the architectures
> supported (in case some of these end up accepted in the archive).
>
Why do the portability and architecture tables changes need to be in
stable?
> The change for Config-Version should be safe, as at worst it will have
> no effect, otherwise packages relying on the correct behavior will
> start to work now, it will also make upgrades easier, for example for
> systemd, which I'm aware suffered from this problem.
>
> The «git log» fix is not yet in master though, but it should also be
> safe, otherwise the build would simply fail. And I've just realized it's
> not documented in debian/changelog, it will be in the ChangeLog, but I
> could add it to debian/changelog too.
>
Yes, please do ship it in sid first, and please document it in
debian/changelog. (Or you could have explained it here, but you
didn't, so debian/changelog will do.)
> The changes have passed all unit tests which are part of the build,
> and all functional test in the dpkg-tests git repo. Attached a diff
> with translation updates filtered.
>
Thanks. Please also provide a full diff.
Cheers,
Julien
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