Hi, Bart, others, Bart Martens wrote on Feb 24 05:43:12 2006: > Consequences for Debian, in my opinion (feel free to explain why you > disagree): > > 1.4.0 is not yet ready for release, and upstream doesn't know when it > will be. Too early to talk about packaging 1.4.0 in Debian. > > 1.3.3 is not good enough for Debian unstable and testing, because we may > not have patched away all regressions before etch freeze. It would be > nice to see upstream fix 1.3.3 and release the result as stable. > > 1.2.2 is stable, and upstream confirms that there are currently no known > showstoppers. Patches for any remaining problems in 1.2.2 are welcome > in separate bug reports.
How about packaging 1.3.3, uploading it in unstable and filing a
serious severity bug just to keep it out of testing? This way debian
users who need 1.3 features may try them, with the addition that they
may help in finding/fixing any regressions.
Seems not that bad to me.
dam
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