-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:06:37AM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote: >On Saturday 29 November 2008 10:28:44 Ben Hutchings wrote: >> libc-client2007b has been replaced by libc-client2007d in unstable. > >Thanks Ben. As you state this only effects sid, not lenny which is >(maybe) good for the rdepends. > >Jonas, > >Are you intending for libc-client2007d to migrate to lenny? Your >change log indicates that this maybe an important release. However I >haven't seen any discussion on debian-release nor any coordination with >the rdepends.
No, I have no plans to special-case uw-imap 2007d regarding the freeze of Lenny. A security update contains virtually all of the contents of that new release. >If not you upload makes life difficult for the rdepends as we can no >longer upload any proposed lenny changes via unstable. I believe this to be a general complication of a long freeze period. And I believe it better to have such complication for developers at large than burdening the release team with requests for special-casing to bring Lenny in sync with Sid. On the other hand, I do not see any problem in allowing newest uw-imap into Lenny - now that release team is bothered about this issue after all. If release do not want the Sid released package into Lenny, but instead would want a specially crafted package only containing upstream changes and not any possible updates to the cdbs packaging routines, then I see no point in spending time on that: there is already a security update like that. >Has the ABI/API actually changed that has necessitated a new -dev >package and lib package. No. Historically, the uw-imap package was licensed requiring indication of any derivative work in the naming of the files (as I interpreted it), which is the reason for the current libname-based-on-package-version scheme. License since changed, but I did not get around to changing the naming scheme before the freeze. It is worth noting that the very shared library is a Debian-specific thing, discourages upstream. So there is no upstream soname, it is purely Debian-specific. As related security issue is that Alpine, using same codebase, uses its own duplicate of the code instead of the shared library offered as libc-clientXXX.so (its predecessor, the non-free pine, was patched to link against our libc-client library, but I have so far failed to convince the maintainer of alpine to the benefits of sharing code). >As you maybe aware a new -dev package means that all rdepends must be >changed and reloaded, whilst just a change in the lib package allows >for binNMU. Yes, I believe I do understand the issue of rdepends here. >Could I ask you to coordinate with the rdepends and discuss/ file bugs >for what you see as the way forward for integration with uw-imap. As I do not intend to bump the version in Lenny, I fail to see the need for coordination here. Please help me see the light if I somehow miss your point - I _do_ want to cooperate. :-) Kind regards, - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkybr4ACgkQn7DbMsAkQLgj5gCfevdYIv3cCdvdBE0zSppBs0lV 9UkAn3ofMb2Eo/kbPKyCcSLQgsJYTtYe =FSNK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]