On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:25:11 +0100, Max Kellermann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the upstream maintainer of the Music Player Daemon project, and > receive a number of support requests / bug reports from Debian users > who use the outdated version 0.15.12 of "mpd", currently in testing. > These bugs were already fixed in newer maintenance releases. > > I know that Debian does not upgrade upstream versions at this point. > However, I would like to know if upgrading within an upstream "stable" > branch like MPD's v0.15.x would be acceptable. > > It seems common practice to cherry-pick upstream patches, and apply > them to the old Debian package. That however seems like a waste of > time, since all commits in our stable branch are bug fixes which would > need to be picked, and in the end, you would essentially have version > 0.15.15 which prints "0.15.12" on --version, just to fulfill Debian's > policy. > > For me personally, this boils down to the question: shall I continue > to maintain the old branch v0.15.x? (there is also v0.16.x which is > also in maintenance mode)
It's too late now to make any changes for the initial squeeze release, but you (or the Debian maintainer) can propose an update for 6.0.1, which will be reviewed by the release team. If the changes have a low chance of breaking things, which it sounds like in this case, they will usually accept it. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110131105511.73108247.michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com
