Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hi Marc, > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 02:53, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Mikhail Gusarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Please allow sphinx 0.4.2-1 to move into testing, as it fixes RC bug >>> (#492732) which prevents building documentation for python-matplotlib. >>> >>> 0.4.2 is a minor upstream release made especially for fixing this >>> bug. The only other packaging change is getting rid of bundled jQuery in >>> binary package. >> But there are plenty of upstream changes. Please extract the patch >> needed to fix #492732 and upload a fixed version based on 0.4.1-2 >> (currently in lenny) to testing-proposed-updates. This new upstream >> release won't be unblocked. > > I'd like to discuss, based on the above comment, what I should do > about matplotlib. > > Currently the archive has 0.98.1 mpl version, and we're working > closely with upstream to let a new upstream release into Debian. The > real goal for the new release is bugfixing and mainly documentation. > > We missed 0.98.2 version because of some glitches in doc generation, > and we have reached yesterday the consensus on releasing 0.98.3 (they > wait for my confirmation the debian package is working fine). > > I got the package almost ready in svn, and the great improvement is we > are now able to generate matplotlib documentation at build time, and > ship it in -doc package along with the binary one. It's a lot of doc, > and given the possibility to users to have it on their system is > really a plus (given the lots of API mpl has), and I think lenny users > deserve this. > > In order to build such doc we need Sphinx 0.4.2 (due to changes in > last version of sphinx, used in mpl docbase), and it's really > impossible to backport the changes from 0.98.3 to 0.98.1 (the one in > the archive). > > I'd like to know if I'm allowed to upload 0.98.3 version in the > archive (when the sphinx situation will be fixed). Please note that > upstreams are really responsive and they have waited for Debian to be > comfortable with a new release before actually announce it in the last > months.
Uploading to unstable doesn't really harm and it gives us a better idea about how invasive the changes are you are talking about... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
