Hey list I have a small question: I'm aware that Debian is currently frozen, thus no new features can be added to squeeze. However, I maintain a package [1] (I'm also the upstream maintainer) which has an annoying but non-critical bug. The package is a parser for TV show episode information and one of the sources recently changed some minor detail in their data which messes up my tool's output.
Anyway. I just released a new upstream version [2] which fixes that bug (and that bug only) and don't really like the idea of shipping a buggy version of my package with squeeze, thus I'm wondering whether it's possible to have a fixed version included in squeeze (probably not) or if I should aim at squeeze-backports or volatile (since the package depends on volatile external data). I realize that according to the policy the package cannot enter squeeze. I'm just wondering whether it's a reasonable approach (from a user's point of view) to have an updated version in volatile (or backports) at the time squeeze is released. (Also, note that according to popcon there are very people currently using the package, thus the issue is probably not that relevant in this case, but I guess there might be other packages with similar issues.) [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/episoder.html [2] http://code.google.com/p/episoder/wiki/ChangeLog cheers -- Stefan Ott http://www.ott.net/ "You are not Grey Squirrel?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
