On Thu, Oct 23, 2014, at 05:13 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Hi Bron, > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014, at 22:53, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > Our goal is to release a pretty-much feature complete alpha this week, > > and ask everyone to test it soon. We would like to have 2.5 ready for > > inclusion in Debian Jessie, hence the time pressure. > > the Debian Jessie freeze is going to happen on November 5th[1] and the > migration time from unstable to testing is now 10 days. > > That basically means unless you have a final 2.5 (or at least some > RC[2]) at the end of the week (26th October), it's not going to be > included in Jessie.
OK - thanks. This is largely my fault for leaving everything so long. Busy lifestyle :( > I don't see that as a big problem, since we can easily provide a 2.5 in > debian-backports and the Ken's version I have in unstable seems to be > pretty stable. > > 1. https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html > 2. I can push smaller changes via stable-package-update, but that means > those changes needs to be small and isolated enough. Everything that's in the tree is pretty close to RC state (except it doesn't build without --http yet, I'm nearly done with the #ifdefs for that). The big things I want in, which aren't in yet, are sync and XFER related. The nice thing is that the upgrade from 2.4 is pretty painless. Bron. -- Bron Gondwana br...@fastmail.fm