Hi, On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:18:28PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 15:49, Rene Engelhard <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:05:56AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: > >> If there is a valid, technical reason, please let us know, but as of > >> now I can't see any. > > > > Loads of RC bugfixes (partly on obsolete versions) waiting to enter testing > > which would more blocked that it already is with the mips* buildd backlog. > > Those RC are still RC even in a month or 2, only that knowing them, > they can be fixed.
You misinterpreted my sentence. I already have *7* RC bugs on OOo fixed in sid. They wait for entering testing. Since weeks. And I don't want 3.1.1 in squeeze. 3.2.0 is (indepently from what I think) far better. > >> So, let's just change the default to 2.6, kindly ask Lucas to do an > >> archive-wide rebuild (I'm pretty sure he'll be happy to support us, > >> but not certan, hey we still have to ask him ;) ), and deal with the > >> fallback. > > > > For months. At which time we'll still have the completely obsolete OOo 3.1.1 > > (or whatever else example you find) in squeeze. No. > > That holds true any time we do the switch. So when should we change > the default? the moment we freeze? In a sane moment. > You mentioned OOo, we have also libjpeg mess going on, and soon we'll > have php5 probably. Obviously those are sifferent, and php5 *is* the uptodate version, not a 1 year old one. > >> Keep waiting and waiting is pointless, and does only harm for the > >> target to support a stable release (there are very few people actively > > > > That's true, though. But python's not alone in the world and if you did > > it far earlier.... > > I understand, when you touch "core/big" packages, there are always > consequences; but I don't get what you're suggesting to actually > switch: at freeze time, when there are no other transition on sight > (i.e. never), release squeeze with 2.5 as default, else? When should packages enter testing? Shortly before the freeze without proper testing? > It was not done before, that's a fact. It should be done now, and deal > with the damage it generates (of course, with the help of RT, if they > agree to start the transition). > > Regards, > -- > Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) > My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ > Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [email protected] | GnuPG-Key ID: D03E3E70 `- Fingerprint: E12D EA46 7506 70CF A960 801D 0AA0 4571 D03E 3E70 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
