Hi, Guillaume Delacour <[email protected]> writes:
> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.11-1 of my package > "gdisk". The version in actual frozen testing is quite old (0.5.1), > and it would be great if the last version 0.6.11 could be available in > Squeeze. The release team no longer accepts new upstream releases, except for bugfix-only releases in some cases[1]. Looking at the changelog, gdisk introduces lots of other changes in both upstream code and packaging. I also found several important bugs mentioned in the upstream changelog: - Fixed serious data corruption bug on big-endian (PowerPC and similar) systems. [0.6.3] - Fixed off-by-one bug in specification of partition when using the -T (--transform-bsd) option in sgdisk. [0.6.4] - Fixed major bug in hybrid MBR creation, which caused incorrect protective partition end point settings and occasionally other problems. [0.6.9] - Fixed bug that created backwards attribute field values (bit #2 was entered as bit #61, etc.). [0.6.10] Do these affect version 0.5.1 currently in Squeeze? I am not sure how severe they are, but at least the first bug looks release critical. Regards, Ansgar [1] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/09/msg00000.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
