On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:04:34AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > By the way, I uploaded getmail4_4.46.0-1~bpo70+1_amd64 > > We can consider a new upstream version for squeeze-lts > and we can ask the security team's opinion for wheezy. > > Would you like to prepare a 4.46.0-1~deb6u1.dsc working in > squeeze and submit it for review to debian-...@lists.debian.org ?
See below. It does not look like simple re-versioning and safe backporting without careful review. > It would be nice if you could test it though, because we don't > have many testers before release... I only use this package for POP3. Most of the changes are in IMAP4 code so my test with POP3 is useless. Henrique's test on my backported package is the good reference. > > https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/getmail4_4.46.0-1~bpo70%2B1.html I build this under pure wheezy chroot. > This can probably be renumbered 4.46.0-1~deb7u1.dsc and submitted > to the security team ? Or does it depend on other packages from backports ? This package is one of those python package using debian/rules as: %: dh $@ --with python2 Since I build this jessie package in the old jessie/sid environment which is very similar to released wheezy, I was not asked to add the dh-python dependency to the debian/control. In wheezy, --with python2 is supported via python package, as I understood. So building for wheezy point release is simple and safe with bumping version to 4.46.0-1~deb7u1. I am not quite sure what change is needed for backporting python package with older python helper scripts. Also, I do not know if compat 8 is supported by squeeze. (as for debhelper, I see no major issue as long as compat7 is provided.) Thus, squeeze is a bit more complicated and requires more testing. FYI: I moved to current packaging style in 2011-07 with 4.20.3-1 The oldstable package oldstable 4.20.0-1 was made with different python helper script in 2010-07. (If I do this backport as my job, I will probably keep old packaging style.) For all practical purpose, if someone needs to use this package under oldstable, he should do so by just "dpkg -i newpackage" since python helper script does not matter for binary packages. I am not really motivated to do this .... Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
