Pierre Ynard dixit: >version into the Debian archive, as seen in #1067708. To quote Thorsten >from that thread: > >> Very much *not* a fan of NMUs doing large changes such as >> new upstream versions. > >I can't say why exactly he would not be a fan, but with hindsight that >was an interesting call.
It turned out to indeed be related, although I cannot blame Sebastian for not spotting it, as well as it was hidden. I actually wrote about that earlier on Fedi: (Markdown formatting lost here though) | I was considering replying to this comment on the “please update xz | package” bugreport earlier with that the discussion is not irrelevant | and that it’s the maintainer’s responsibility on new upgrades to check | for new legal issues and “other hidden gems”. | | I didn’t because I didn’t want to bother going in with an annoyed | self-righteous “user”. | | Now it turns out all three of the involved ones were “string + number | @ freemailer” #JiaT75 sockpuppets, so it’s probably okay I didn’t | bother. | | Not that I blame Sebastian — it was very well hidden, and even my | usual diffing between old and new version would not have found it. | | I do take away from this to also check the diff between VCS repo at | the time of the release and release tarball. Perhaps also between | branch and tag if they, like Apache Tomcat, introduce extra commits | there. >Is xz-utils going to be maintained? Will we want to keep in the archive >an unmaintained low-level library - low-level as in, susceptible of >getting pulled as a dependency in lots of places - and rely on it for >components such as dpkg? That scenario you describing here would actually be much less of a problem. The problem comes when the library in that state then does get updates that probably are not even necessary but shiny enough people demand them. bye, //mirabilos (also a Debian Developer, despite the From) -- When he found out that the m68k port was in a pretty bad shape, he did not, like many before him, shrug and move on; instead, he took it upon himself to start compiling things, just so he could compile his shell. How's that for dedication. -- Wouter, about my Debian/m68k revival
