Re: nodejs 6.9 in unstable, manual transition, schedule
2017-01-04 11:56 GMT+01:00 Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk>:
> Quoting Jérémy Lal (2017-01-04 10:12:44)
>> 2017-01-04 10:04 GMT+01:00 Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>:
>>> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 09:54:34AM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote:
>>>> i really think it would be best to have nodejs 6.9 in next debian release.
>>>> That version is currently in experimental and i was about to upload it
>>>> to unstable, but i tried to do things right and prepared the addons
>>>> that need to be rebuilt and binNMUed, then opened a transition bug
>>>> #849505.
>>>> No answer yet, people are busy, and the number of concerned packages
>>>> is low (a dozen or so), should i just rebuild and upload them myself ?
>>> The transition freeze was on Nov 5.
>>
>> This is not very smart - i'm talking about something that will make
>> future maintenance and security patches easier, something that is easy
>> to do and that i can even do alone.
>> Contrast this with an openssl 1.1 upload few days before the
>> transition freeze. I don't get it.
>
> libssl transition was coordinated with the release team well before the
> freeze.
> Apart from giving up and let things rest as they are (or fall apart and
> get kicked out), I believe there is also the option of asking the
> release team for permission to do the transition even if late.
Oh, i thought transition bugs were read by release team.
Please, release team ?
Jérémy
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