On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:55:42 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > Why is this "important"? It looks like a purely cosmetical question. > > > (minor or wishlist.) > > > > Because it's something that should be resolved prior to release, and > > probably should even be RC. It certainly isn't the kind of breakage > > that should be introduced in an NMU. > > I don't know it is acceptable for you or not but, personally, I > prefer lynx-cur because there are two branches of lynx in the > upstream and the development version is called lynx-cur by the > upstream. The name lynx-cur explicitly expresses that it is the > developement version instead of stable version.
It's your decision, but are you sure that you want to take on the repsonsibility of maintaining a development release of lynx throughout a stable release cycle instead of the stable release of lynx? I can't speak for the security team, but I'd be rather suprised if they'd be willing to support a development version in favor of a stable version of lynx. From where I sit, it seems like the wrong solution to #369386 was reached; lynx-cur should have an RC bug against it, but that RC bug should exist only to keep lynx-cur to transition to testing and then being released. A second lynx package should exist which is the most recent stable release of the lynx tree. [This situtation already exists for numerous -snapshot packages which should never be released with a Debian stable release.] An alternative possibility exists that the -cur release is actually the version that upstream plans on having long-term support for, and the lynx version is just for legacy users, but the bug thread (which I read) doesn't make this point clear. Don Armstrong -- NASCAR is a Yankee conspiracy to keep you all placated so the South won't rise again. -- http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=327 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
