retitle 860955 poppler: please package new upstream version thanks Hi,
In data sabato 22 aprile 2017 17:42:03 CEST, Francesco Poli (wintermute) ha scritto: > So, please, pretty please, package the new upstream version > as soon as possible. > I am aware that Debian stretch is fully frozen and that > poppler/0.54.0-x won't make it to enter stretch These are enough reasons to not rush anything right now. > but having > this new upstream version in unstable (or, at least, in > experimental) would be highly appreciated anyway! Upload it in unstable, knowing it would not make it into testing anyway, would only make fixing bugs in testing way more complicated (since they would require special uploads to testing-proposed-update, which has a way smaller surface of testers than unstable). Uploading it to experimental would be possible. OTOH, since in almost every version of poppler the libpoppler library has a bumped SONAME, this would require me building and uploading binaries on my own, and wait for NEW processing. I don't fancy doing this every month or so (the current release frequency of poppler), so I do not upload every version even in experimental, no matter the state of the release. So, unless some other software in experimental requires a new version (where "requires" means "cannot be even build, not even with few features disabled"), I will not upload new versions of poppler until I know I can start a transition in unstable (so surely after testing will be opened again after the Stretch release). If Debian had some PPA/Bikeshed system implemented I would use it, but until then... -- Pino Toscano
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
