Any update? Top-posting in to make relating easier.
RIchard On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:53, Richard Hartmann <richih.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
