Re: Upload of TeX Info 7.0.x to unstable?

[Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>]

Am 25.01.2023 um 22:08 teilte Sebastian Ramacher mit:
> On 2023-01-24 09:23:26 +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:

Hello Sebastian,

> > TeX Info version 7.0 was released last year at beginning of November and
> > was uploaded to experimental. We got a few bug reports, which were
> > addressed by upstream authors promptly.
> > Since then two bugfix releases appeared (currently 7.0.2) and we could
> > think about uploading to unstable. According to [1] we are neither in
> > the tool chain nor would this be a transition. Nevertheless we know that
> > a few(?) packages use makeinfo and texi2* to convert documents, so
> > uploading could cause breakage and FTBFS bugs when building docs.
>
> Did you perform a test rebuild of the reverse build dependencies? That
> would make it every easy to answer the question whether its safe or not.
No, I did not. Could you trigger that or let me know how to do it?

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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