Re: Why is subversion 1.1 remaining in experimental?
On 2004-11-18 22:22:23 -0800, David Kimdon wrote:
> It isn't about subversion 1.1 being unstable or experimental. I'd
> really like to upload 1.1 but don't feel it would be in the best
> interest on Debian users. Debian is in the process of releasing
> sarge. If I update to subversion 1.1 now then in addition to needing
> to test subverison 1.1 itself all the packages that depend on
> subversion:
>
> websvn viewcvs trac svn-buildpackage esvn cvs2svn libsvn-mirror-perl
> svk libsvn-simple-perl rapidsvn viewcvs trac
>
> will need to be rebuilt/retested and generally verified to work. Many
> of them will just work without hassle, but small problems take time to
> fix. The time spent fixing these packages and making sure everything
> is built on all archs needs to come from somewhere and it will come
> from people who would otherwise be working to get sarge out. That
> will make it take longer to release sarge or else some of these
> packages won't make it in to sarge.
When will sarge be released? If the date isn't even known, doesn't
this mean that users may have the time to test 1.1 and all the
depending packages? I assume that these packages wouldn't go to
testing (therefore sarge) until all the main problems are fixed.
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