Bug#875714: stretch-pu: package zeroc-ice/3.6.3-5

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

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On 2018-07-09 07:12, Jose Gutierrez de la Concha wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 1:53 PM Adam D. Barratt
> <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2018-02-26 at 12:48 +0100, Jose Gutierrez de la Concha
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > any change we can get this approved on time for debian 9.4?
> >
> > The current diff is nearly 20,000 lines, with a lot of effective
> > noise
> > like changing quoting on command invocation and logging, and s/OS
> > X/macOS/, which is really difficult to try and find real changes in,
> > and probably one of the reasons that people unfortunately keep not
> > finding time to deal with this request (which isn't an excuse,
> > but...).
>
> I understand, there were a lot of minor and cosmetic changes in this
> release,
> but still it will be good to get it uploaded at some point as there is
> some important
> bug fixes see
> https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice/blob/v3.6.4/CHANGELOG-3.6.md
>
> We will eventually release 3.6.5 and we will be in a better position
> if 3.6.4 is arlready
> in stretch.

Unfortunately this managed to not make it onto anyone's radar for some 
time again. :-| (and it appears that 3.6.5 was rleeased in the 
meantime.)

> > One thing I did notice from a quick look through the packaging
> > changes
> > is that introducing new binary packages (i.e. the Python 2 bindings)
> > is
> > not something that is generally done within a stable Debian release.
>
> Python2 packages were requested in
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=855552
> We can consider leaving this package out  if that is an stopper.

It would be at this stage, yes.

Is this update (now for oldstable rather than stable) something you're 
still interesting in persuing?

Regards,

Adam