Hi! I'll be uploading 1.17.0 to unstable on the 26th given the amount of accumulated changes, even though I've not flushed everything I had planned to due to real-life events. I've got a last push to make fixing at least two bug reports, a tiny command-line parsing quirk and including cherry-picked changes from 1.16.x.
In particular the strings and some more code cleanups are still pending to be flushed, also improving performance for some perl modules which I realized will require major surgery, like a new module hierarchy (sorry Niels!). As mentioned before I'll send a mail when those are done and people can base off master w/o the dangers of massive merge conflicts, I'll try to prioritize these for the beginning of 1.17.1 though. This version contains some pre-announced major changes that might break stuff, like .deb xz compression by default (switching 3.0 source formats is pending a discussion I'll start on debian-devel), removal of obsolete wrappers and similar. The only unnanounced change that will break _very few_ buggy packages is the (non-)native version strictness for new source formats. Regards, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130725014341.ga15...@gaara.hadrons.org
