Bug#685905: unblock: cmake/2.8.9-1

2012-10-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Modestas Vainius (mo...@debian.org):
 Package: release.debian.org
 Severity: normal
 User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
 Usertags: unblock
 
 Hello,
 
 I would like to ask for unblock of 2.8.9-1 for wheezy. Wheezy currently has
 2.8.9~rc1 which is a feature complete release candidate of 2.8.9.

So far, about 6 weeks later, nothing happened.

And, as it has been stressed out later by Nicholas Breen, this version
fixes a regression that affect other packages (such as gromacs).

So, well:

- either the release team has no time to review the whole diff and
therefore will not unblock this package

- either they don't accept it

- either they accept it latebut that requires a very big
investment from them

In all 3 cases, I think that uploading a package with a fix for
#681428 *only* would not hurt.and would anyway fix the induced
bugs such as #680825

Could it be considered? I think that relying everything on an unblock
for cmake 2.8.9-1 is too optimistic.

I understand you may have gazillion of arguments to avoid providing an
RC release in wheezybut, that had to happen before the freeze if
you wanted to be sure it happens (yeah, I know, maybe upstream
released after the freeze, dunnoIn Such case, this is just bad luck)

PS: I know nothing about all this stuff. I went on this while randomly
going through RC bugs.





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Re: Bug#685905: unblock: cmake/2.8.9-1

2012-08-26 Thread Nicholas Breen
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:27:47PM +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote:
 I would like to ask for unblock of 2.8.9-1 for wheezy. Wheezy currently has
 2.8.9~rc1 which is a feature complete release candidate of 2.8.9.
[snip]
 Overall, it would be a bad move for us and upstream to release wheezy with a
 non-final CMake release. 2.8.9~rc3 (2.8.9 has no upstream changes since RC3),
 uploaded 2012-08-04, has already proven itself in unstable, i.e. there were no
 regression were reported in BTS.

I would like to add that allowing this unblock would indirectly close an RC
bug: it solves a FTBFS in gromacs, #680825, which was caused by a regression in
cmake -rc1.  The team swiftly identified the bug and fixed it for -rc2, and
it's tested and working with the requested version of cmake as well.


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