On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 14:56 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Fri 19 Aug 2011 14:47:30 +0200, a écrit : > > On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 14:36 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > > > It could have turned out that this bug hindered a lot of other > > > > packages from building. > > > > > > Sure, but there's no point in rushing building packages: there's a whole > > > year for that. What we need to do is fixing bugs, not hide them. > > > > How to address the problem with DMs not willing to package new upstream > > versions fixing a lot of bugs, especially including Hurd build problems? > > NMU?? This hinders a lot of progress. > > Please point a specific case and we'll end up doing an NMU, yes. > According to graph-top.txt, there's not so much hindering.
Two examples: 1) file Unstable: 5.04-5+b1 (5.04-5: 05 Aug 2010) Experimental: 5.04-6: 18 Sep 2010 Upstream: 5.08: 03 Aug 2011 Upstream version fixing FTBFS: 5.06: 14 Apr 2011 Bug reports: #612742: 10 Feb 2011, not applied patch: retitled #626340: 11 May 2011, wishlist about 5.06, 5.07, 5.08 2) logrotate Unstable: 3.7.8-6: 17 Apr 2010 Experimental: 3.7.9-1: 22 Jun 2011 Upstream version fixing FTBFS: 3.8.0: 21 Jun 2011 Bug reports: #612342: 14 Feb 2011, Partially correct patch, applied to 3.7.9 #633529: 11 Jul 2011, wishlist about 3.8.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
