On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 05:39, Peter Clifton <pc...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> There were some patches ready to push the license fix, but Richard, who > did those is holding off as I mentioned that Hamish promised 1.4.3 > packages whilst he was at LCA. In any case.. we might be forced just to > have the licence fix, rather than a new upstream version + license fix. If need be, I can finalize the packages & get a sponsor within 24 hours. It would be a NMU and I am not a DD, but the bugs are RC and there was ample time for the maintainer to react, so hey. Just say the word and I will get going. Hamish: What is your take on this, if any? >> , and maybe throw in a fix for #507363 for good measure. > > That's not critical, and isn't something I expect they would want to > change during the freeze. At least 1.4.0 -> 1.4.3 is just carefully > back-ported (and well tested) code changes fixing crash bugs. > > Don't underestimate the likelihood of a "simple" packaging fix causing > major breakage. Its always the last minute one-liner which breaks a > release ;) Personally, I would tend to split the fixes into as many packages as possible so RMs can cherry-pick, anyway. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
