Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2013-12-13 Thread Luke-Jr
I agree with Scott's assessment, although I would note that Debian *does* have a suite that addresses the needs of Bitcoin: stable-updates. Mandatory protocol rule changes would seem to fall within the broken by the flow of time category. Thoughts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#718272: backport branches are available

2013-09-04 Thread Luke-Jr
This isn't correct. We do support backported/stable versions in a separate git repository: https://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/ Debian is welcome to choose a branch and I will do what I can to ensure it receives long-term support. I would recommend using the latest release

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: backport branches are available

2013-09-04 Thread Luke-Jr
On Wednesday, September 04, 2013 4:58:58 PM Scott Howard wrote: How are those updated? It appears whenever there is a current-version micro-release, those commits are backported to the stable branches. I have a lot of different projects, and tend to cycle through them. Outside of that routine,

Bug#718272: backport policy

2013-09-04 Thread Luke-Jr
Also, note the backport branches have a policy of only including fixes which have been first merged to the master branch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#665922: mips big endian

2012-03-27 Thread Luke-Jr
To address the mips/powerpc/s390/sparc/sparc64 concerns... bitcoind has never been supported on big-endian architectures, even in 0.3.x, and even if it used to build, there's almost no chance it works at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#665922: wheezy bitcoind way too old/unmaintained

2012-03-27 Thread Luke-Jr
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 2:00:52 PM Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Being old is not a bug in itself, however: Please file individual bugreports for each, well, bug, instead of a single giant one. That's much easier to handle. Being unmaintained means there is nobody tracking which bugs affect it