On 1 July 2012 17:19, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]> wrote: > but since aptitude is a > standalone and relatively straightforward package, accepting a new > minor version early in the freeze doesn't tend to cause big problems.
The only problems I foresee are with the new command-line handling, which is much stricter about what is acceptable. As mentioned, I have performed some testing with other programs (tasksel, cronapt) but do not usually use them myself. The more likely disruption is to a persons personal scripts and/or usage patterns, which will have to be adjusted. IMO the changes make the program more correct and I am willing to work to fix any potential breakage introduced. So Axel, Christian, please make a judgement call on this before deciding to upload, for the reasons Manual mentions below. If these command-line changes aren't really appropriate at this stage of releasing (I don't really have experience to judge that properly) then we'll just leave this version until after Wheezy. > OTOH, and this is quite important, introducing new versions in > unstable while in freeze, is not recommended. If somebody sponsors > 0.6.9 (and possibly .10, etc in the next few weeks/months) for > unstable but you don't ask it to be accepted in testing; and then > there's a RC bug affecting testing (and with changes in multiarch and > so on, they can be hairy); release managers won't easily accept 0.6.9+ > versions (unless, again, is very early in the process) and fixing > problems will generally be more problematic. > > So I'd say that the better solution is to either: > > a) upload soon and ask for freeze exception also > ASAP-with-some-days-of-margin (if RC bugs start to be reported against > that version, it will be difficult to convince release managers) To avoid entangling issues if the exception is not granted, should we get the exception (i.e. go-ahead from the release team) before uploading? Thanks _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
