On Thu, Oct 23, 2014, at 05:13 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Hi Bron, > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014, at 22:53, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > Our goal is to release a pretty-much feature complete alpha this week, > > and ask everyone to test it soon. We would like to have 2.5 ready for > > inclusion in Debian Jessie, hence the time pressure. > > the Debian Jessie freeze is going to happen on November 5th[1] and the > migration time from unstable to testing is now 10 days. > > That basically means unless you have a final 2.5 (or at least some > RC[2]) at the end of the week (26th October), it's not going to be > included in Jessie.
Realistically, not going to happen. I'm not happy with the sync code yet. > I don't see that as a big problem, since we can easily provide a 2.5 in > debian-backports and the Ken's version I have in unstable seems to be > pretty stable. Awesome. Let's do backports for 2.5 then. There's a LOT of changes from 2.4, and I'd prefer not to screw people. > 1. https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html > 2. I can push smaller changes via stable-package-update, but that means > those changes needs to be small and isolated enough. Yeah, not worth it. I'd rather give it a bit longer to be right. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana br...@fastmail.fm