On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 06:36:29PM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > It's downright impossible. Version 3.x differs drastically from 2.x, > that's why it is assigned a new major number.
I figured this, but had to try, in case the bugfix wasn't lowlevel. :) > > The alternative is to bite the bullet and start working on my promised > > experimental 3.0 packages. > That's what I'd urge you to do! I'm on it! I have packages built, that fail at the testsuite. As soon as you upload 2.99.6, I'll try again with that. > > However, since the last 3.0pre release, I've > > seen a number of big changes, some of which appeared to be interface > > changes. > None of them is critical. The only reason why 3.0 is not yet released > is that I'd hate to make a release with such a *defective* documentation > as we have now. However, given my sky-rocketed load average, I suppose > I'd finally cease and release it, with at least minor improvements in > the docs. (Not willing to divulge anything, I'd only say that I'm going > to release two GNU packages this weekend ...) Interesting. My random bet is radius and tar! Thanks, again, for the texinfo docs license change. 3.0 in Debian will again have a info manual, even if its defective. :) > Generally speaking, I do not expect any major change in the > API. At most some minor bugfixes, but I don't expect many of these. > I've got plenty of major changes in my mind indeed, and there *will be* > a lot of major changes after 3.0, but not before. Ok. > > OTOH, a new Debian architecture (s390x) has testsuite failures, but I > > still don't have an idea if this same error is still present in the > > current git master code: > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=mailutils&arch=s390x&ver=1%3A2.2%2Bdfsg1-5&stamp=1330644291 > > It's been more than a year ago, so it's hard to tell. Since then a lot > of things has changed. In particular, I've succeeded in getting rid > of DejaGNU as the testing framework, since it was too cumbersome to > use. It still persists for interactive utilities, such as mail (given > no feasible alternative), but again, given the amount of changes and > insufficient information in this log, I cannot say anything definite... > Can you try this with the recent snapshot? I've had a few problems trying to make dist from current git, so I'd be glad if I could use an official tarball. Once I have something built and uploaded to experimental, it'll get compiled in a gazillion architectures (for values of gazillion near to 14) and we'll be able to find out how the new release is doing in more exotic environments. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/ _______________________________________________ Bug-mailutils mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mailutils
