On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 04:17:49PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello ChangZhuo Chen. > > Thanks for your quick feedback. > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:05:11PM +0800, ChangZhuo Chen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Thank for the information. However, I once discuss with upstream about > > this and they suggest to create package when new version is released. It > > would be good if someone want to cherry-pick or use git snapshot, and I > > will sponsor if necessary. For me, I just want to wait for the new > > release, or use git snapshot when Scretch freezes. > > While I normally agree that it's best to use upstream releases there > are ofcourse always reasons to break the general rules. > Unless you know there will very soon be a new upstream release I think > this might be such an occation because: > - not making the change means your package might be temporarily removed > from testing (and if not fixed before freeze, miss next release). > - making the change late in the release cycle (rather than now) means > you might not have much time to fix any potential breakage you introduce > which will likely result in your package being removed from testing > during the freeze and then certainly miss the release. > - the change should have happened years ago already, there's not much > point in postponing it any further and blocking progress. > > If you make the change now, you have plenty of time to fix up any potential > issues it might have before we freeze because we're still quite early > in the release cycle. > > I'm able to upload myself and I read it as you're welcoming NMUs. I'll > consider NMUing your package if needed (but I generally prefer getting > packages removed when there's no maintainer who actively wants to > take care of them so that will likely be my first option unless > release managers thinks it's a bad idea)....
Hi, Okay, let me find some local Debian contributors to prepare the fix. Not a good newcomer bug, but a good practice for potential Debian Developer. > > Regards, > Andreas Henriksson -- ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) <czc...@debian.org> Debian Developer Key fingerprint = EC9F 905D 866D BE46 A896 C827 BE0C 9242 03F4 552D
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