On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 17:56:19 +0200 Pino Toscano wrote: [...] > In data sabato 22 aprile 2017 17:42:03 CEST, Francesco Poli (wintermute) ha > scritto: [...] > > 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).
I am aware of this: it's exactly the reason why I suggested to at least use experimental... > > 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. Please excuse my ignorance: wouldn't this be the same processing required for a hypothetical upload to unstable? I mean: you should be used to this procedure... > 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. That's fully understandable! If an upload had been made one month ago, I wouldn't have asked for another upload now! But here we are talking about version 0.54.0, while unstable still has version 0.48.0, uploaded some 6 months ago... > > 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... I am not sure I understand why you would upload to a PPA repository, but not to experimental. Wouldn't the amount of required work be similar? -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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