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Package: release.debian.org
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User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
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Dear release team,
please allow libguestfs 1.34.4-1 into testing. This is a new upstream
sub-version that only introduces bugfixes and does not break existing
APIs.
Upstream has a sane release policy as documented in guestfs(3):
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| LIBGUESTFS VERSION NUMBERS
| Since April 2010, libguestfs has started to make separate
| development and stable releases, along with corresponding
| branches in our git repository. These separate releases can
| be identified by version number:
|
| even numbers for stable: 1.2.x, 1.4.x, ...
| .-------- odd numbers for development: 1.3.x, 1.5.x, ...
| |
| v
| 1 . 3 . 5
| ^ ^
| | |
| | `-------- sub-version
| |
| `------ always '1' because we don't change the ABI
|
| Thus "1.3.5" is the 5th update to the development branch
| "1.3".
|
| As time passes we cherry pick fixes from the development
| branch and backport those into the stable branch, the effect
| being that the stable branch should get more stable and less
| buggy over time. So the stable releases are ideal for
| people who don't need new features but would just like the
| software to work.
|
| Our criteria for backporting changes are:
|
| * Documentation changes which don't affect any code are
| backported unless the documentation refers to a future
| feature which is not in stable.
|
| * Bug fixes which are not controversial, fix obvious
| problems, and have been well tested are backported.
|
| * Simple rearrangements of code which shouldn't affect how
| it works get backported. This is so that the code in
| the two branches doesn't get too far out of step,
| allowing us to backport future fixes more easily.
|
| * We don't backport new features, new APIs, new tools etc,
| except in one exceptional case: the new feature is
| required in order to implement an important bug fix.
|
| A new stable branch starts when we think the new features in
| development are substantial and compelling enough over the
| current stable branch to warrant it. When that happens we
| create new stable and development versions 1.N.0 and
| 1.(N+1).0 [N is even]. The new dot-oh release won't
| necessarily be so stable at this point, but by backporting
| fixes from development, that branch will stabilize over
| time.
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Cheers,
-Hilko
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