On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Well, you also ensure that you won't discover issues introduced in new > versions until well too-late in the developement cycle...
Sure, but that happens always, no matter how you set the cut-off. Unless we stick with 1.19 for jessie too. I think you wouldn’t want that. So this is no argument. > What are the chances that there will no new LTS until our next freeze? Dunno, haven’t talked to the Mediawiki people yet. Worst case, we just take the then-current version, as usual. > In any case, it would still be very helpful to continue packaging new > upstream releases in experimental at least so that you can have early Hm, are you volunteering? Also, this gets a nightmare wrt. the extensions… but I now know how to fix _that_ ;) Anyway… I’m doing this for work at $dayjob, so the interest from me is to have stable, not-too-often- changing, mediawiki versions in Debian. I’ll not block you, I didn’t block David’s package split either, but I’m not going to do the work, sorry. (Not speaking for the others, at least jmw and Romain should still be there somewhere…) bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-314 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Boris Esser, Sebastian Mancke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org