Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?
Thanks for the info! That explains a lot. :)
Ben
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:52:12 +0100, Florian Ernst <florian@uni-hd.de> wrote:
> Hello Ben, hello list!
>
> Jumping it late, but here we go...
>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:41:21PM +0000, Ben Bettin wrote:
> > [...]
> > Firestarter isn't packaged for Sarge? I thought in order for
> > something to make it to stable it had to be in testing and have "run
> > the gauntlet".
>
> Well, the particular package had to _have been_ in testing before this
> testing was declared stable. Apparently this applied to firestarter so
> it was included in stable and the next cycle began.
>
> > I was under the impression that Testing had everything
> > Stable did, perhaps newer versions, and then some things that have
> > made it down from Unstable. Could someone explain to me how this came
> > about, I'm confused why it isn't there?
>
> There was a serious bug in the firestarter package in testing
> (#282410), so the package was found unsuitable for release and thus
> dropped from testing on 20041129. The maintainer has since uploaded a
> newer version which fixes that bug, but this new version hasn't yet
> been built on all supported architectures (due to the GNOME 2.8
> transition as it seems) so it couldn't propagate to testing again so
> far.
>
> If there is no remedy the upcoming stable release (Sarge) will be
> released without firestarter which would be a shame, but the
> maintainer is aware of the situation and will take care.
>
> HTH,
> Flo
>
>
>
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