On 26 July 2017 at 09:55, Mark Dufour <m.duf...@kopano.com> wrote: > hi dimitri, > >> I'm not sure, but I seemed to me the patch I was cherrypicking is only >> in 8.4.90 aka alpha/beta builds. I might be wrong and/or got deceived >> by github. >> >> This build failure was blocking python3.6 migration in Ubuntu. Hence I >> did this, instead of removing/demoting the package in Ubuntu. > > since nothing else presumably depends on libvmime, wouldn't it be > more straightforward to just revert to libvmime 0.9.1..?
Maybe.... however, this is now done, and we get "better" libvmime, potentially. Up to debian maintainers / release teams to choose what to do in Debian. Reverts / version downgrades are a bit painful and are usually avoided from the archive maintenance perspective. -- Regards, Dimitri.
