Bug#1031592: unblock: poke/3.0+dfsg
On Sunday, February 19 2023, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> On 2023-02-18 19:03:17 -0500, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>> Package: release.debian.org
>> Severity: normal
>> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
>> Usertags: unblock
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I decided to file this request even though this is *not* going to
>> involve any transition nor anything big. Please let me know if you
>> prefer to be contacted via other channels.
>>
>> [ Reason ]
>>
>> poke has recently released version 3.0. Unfortunately, due to personal
>> reasons, I was unable to work on updating our package until this
>> weekend. I believe it is in the best interest of our users to have poke
>> 3.0 shipped in bookworm, not only because of the several bugs that are
>> being fixed, but also because other GNU/Linux distributions are already
>> shipping the latest version to their users.
>>
>> [ Impact ]
>>
>> Shipping the current version of poke in testing (2.4) will make the
>> bookworm release already outdated when compared to other distributions.
>
> Note that there is no automatic blocking of new upstream releases. From
> https://release.debian.org/bookworm/freeze_policy.html
>
> "Starting 2023-02-12, only small, targeted fixes are appropriate for
> bookworm. We want maintainers to focus on small, targeted fixes. This is
> mainly at the maintainers discretion, there will be no hard rule that
> will be enforced."
Thank you for the reply. I understand that there's no real enforcement,
but I decided to file this bug out of courtesy for the release team's
work.
> In any case, if you want us to judge if the update to 3.0 would be
> acceptable under this rule, we need more info. What's new in the
> release? Is this a small update or a major update? etc.
There are many new features and bugfixes in this release. It is a major
update, but doesn't introduce new binary packages nor changes that
affect other Debian packages.
You can see a summary of new changes here:
https://sources.debian.org/src/poke/3.0%2Bdfsg-1/NEWS/#L10
>From lines 10 to 313.
I understand that it is a lot to read and digest, and you probably have
more important things to do, so I'm not expecting an in-depth analysis
here.
Thank you,
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