On Monday 14 February 2011 11:58:28 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Dear developers, Wrong list. You want debian-devel. For the irksome case where a proprietary protocol is changed out from under Free Software in a stable release, Debian has already had a mechanism for fixing this, for a while. First, the change required to support the changes in the protocol are applied to the stable version of the software. Then, after some internal testing, a VUA ts published and the updated Debian package is uploaded to volatile. Concurrently, this update might also be published to stable-proposed-updates. If there are complaints with the new package, these are addressed in the same repositories. Assuming the package is in good shape by the next point release, the new package is included in that point release. With Squeeze, volatile goes away, but instead the stable-updates service hosted on the master repositories fills the same role. Also, the VUA step may be dropped; it'll at least be renamed. This is similar to a security update in some ways, but it doesn't have a dedicated team and repository mainly due to the relative importance. The sticking point is largely the same, too; the fix must be "cherry-picked" / "backported" to the version of the software that is in Debian. If no one will do that work, that is proof of lack of interest in the bug fix. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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