control: close -1 I agree with you, and let's close this bug..
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 09:15:16AM +0100, Felix Geyer wrote: > Hi, > > On 2019-02-26 08:09, Mo Zhou wrote: > > Source: ninja-build > > X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected] > > > > Hi Felix, > > > > The last upload for ninja-build dates back to more than 1 year ago. > > There are some changes lined up but nothing that warranted an upload: > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ninja-build/commits/master > > Just because a package hasn't been uploaded in a while doesn't mean it has > been abandoned. > It might just continue to work without problems. > > > The package looks quite old since it has an ancient std-ver. > > I'm sorry but that's a really bad criteria. In the end it's just a number in > a control field. > Is there anything in the package that you think needs improving besides > bumping a number? > > > I intend to help update the package and import the latest upstream > > version 1.9.0 then upload it to unstable, does that sound good to you? > > This could be either an ITS or an NMU, at your preference. > > At this stage in the release I consider it a very bad idea since many > packages use ninja to build. > I don't want to potentially break those in the freeze by uploading a new > major upstream release. > > > I wanted to fix [1] but clearly we cannot do that at this stage. > > > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849513 > > As mentioned in the bug report I don't see a reason to "fix" this. > I should just close that bug. > > Felix
