On Jul 19 2015, Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> wrote: > Nikolaus> I agree. There shouldn't have been an s3ql package in > Nikolaus> Wheezy. This was when I was young and inexperienced with > Nikolaus> Debian packaging. However, the situation is different for > Nikolaus> Jessie. Now that it is much more mature, there will be > Nikolaus> issues in keeping the stretch S3QL fully backwards > Nikolaus> compatible with Jessie S3QL. > > I don't understand. > do you mean perhaps no issues or a managable number of issues or > something like that?
I meant to write "no issues", sorry. > >> So, you talked about it being a lot of work to do the upgrade in > >> one step. Why does that need to happen? Why can't the upgrade > >> be handled in two steps and we just package the necessary parts > >> to do all the steps? > > Nikolaus> That would mean to package ~5 intermediate S3QL > Nikolaus> versions. Not a big deal in terms of work (since these > Nikolaus> versions were already in testing at some point), but do > Nikolaus> you think that would be acceptable for a point release? > > >> How much harder are we talking about than getting the s3qladm and > >> s3ql libraries from the 2.5 version of s3ql into Jessie? > > Nikolaus> I don't understand the question. > > Ah. > Looking at the debian news file, the only announced upgrade is at > version 2.5 between 1.11 and 2.11.1. Oh. Obviously my memory has failed me completely here. You are right. I just checked, all that is needed is one interim version. The best choice would be to package S3QL 2.9, that is the most-recent version that still supports upgrading from 1.11. > It sounds like you believe that many intermediate versions are > required. What am I missing? It looks to me like only one > intermediate version is needed. Can we get that into Jessie? I don't > know, but I'd be happy to talk to the release team and make my best > argument for it. I you can get the release team to agree, I'm happy to get the package in shape. This would be based on http://snapshot.debian.org/package/s3ql/2.9%2Bdfsg-2/ Best, -Nikolaus -- GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
