On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Santiago, can you revert this commit in the debian package of diffutils > at least for now? Just revert the patch linked above.
Done for now. > If upstream doesn't want to revert the change, we'll adapt dpkg-source > but you will have to keep the patch until a fixed dpkg-dev is available in > all distributions and/or add a Breaks on the dpkg-dev version that are > not compatible. > > BTW, the change above dates back to 2002 according to git but it was first > part of diffutils 2.8.4 (2004?) and we just switched from 2.8.1 to 2.9 in > Debian sid (whoa, what happened Santiago?). Those were beta releases only distributed in alpha.gnu.org. As it is Debian policy, we only package stable things for unstable, and diffutils 2.9 is the first stable relase since 2.8.1, as you can see in the FTP site: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/ If you ask about the changelog: Some of those beta releases were packaged for Debian experimental, but my changelog policy for unstable is to document only what was uploaded for unstable. The drawback for this is that I can't actually close some bugs until they are actually fixed in unstable, but I prefer it that way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
