Re: Upload of TeX Info 7.0.x to unstable?
Hi Hilmar,
On 26/01/23 at 21:12 +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> Dear Lucas,
>
> 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.
>
> I asked the question already to "debian-release@lists.debian.org" and
> they asked me, if I "did perform a test rebuild of the reverse build
> dependencies". As I don't know how to do that and don't have the HW
> resources to do so they pointed me to [2]. May I ask you to help me and
> trigger the test rebuilds?
>
> The TexInfo 7.0.2 package was uploaded to experimental, so it is
> currently already in the archive. Many thanks!
Sure, see https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/10/msg00097.html
If you are fast with providing me with what I need, I can do that over
the week-end.
Lucas
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