* Neil McGovern [2012-06-06 13:35 +0100]: > Presumeably the packages which did this would then be RC buggy with > trivial fixes and could be processed using standard NMU rules as allowed > for during the freeze.
If I understand you correctly, then you just implied that you won't deny freeze exceptions (at least in an early freeze phase) for nodejs related packages if they are RC buggy in unstable due to the need to adapt to a different command name even if they are not in testing yet. I have prepared a possible team upload (in this case an euphemism for a NMU either acknowledged or uploaded by the maintainers) for node that updates the packaging to use a recent debhelper version and so on and produces the same files in the data.tar.gz as rebuilding the current package would produce (except of the changelog and due to lintian fixes the copyright file). I also have an early WIP patch against upstream that allows renaming node and adapting the man pages via ./configure. I plan to improve this patch, add it to the possible team upload and propose it to node's maintainers soonish. As a result of this, the size and the complexity of a diff that would need to be reviewed by you if node doesn't get uploaded with a new name before the freeze would be significantly reduced. Both together reduces time pressure a bit, but the time is getting short even with this reduced time pressure. Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
