Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 01:13:03AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:02:47AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: >>> Dominic Hargreaves wrote: >>> >>>> I just wanted to check with the release team about the state of >>>> movabletype-opensource. >>>> However, ideally I would like to ship the final 4.2 release with lenny. >>>> Upstream are planning one more release candidate (probably) and then a >>>> final release towards the end of July. This is after the advertised >>>> freeze; however I anticipate the delta between rc4 and final to be quite >>>> small, and to only contain bugfixes. >>>> >>>> Would a freeze exception for rc4 and/or the final release package be >>>> approved, if required? >>> It depends on what the changes are, how big they are and how much risk >>> of breakage there is when the package is frozen... If it are only >>> bugfixes chances are big we would consider it. >> 4.2 has now been released, a bit later than hoped. >> >> Comparing 4.2~rc4-1 with 4.2-1 is a bit tedious because of a perltidy >> run by upstream and a large number of translation updates. >> >> If we look at the upstream repository >> http://code.sixapart.com/svn/movabletype/branches/release-42/ >> and generate two diffs representing changes between rc4 and final: >> >> r2834:2876 >> r2877:2922 >> >> (ie ignoring the perltidy) and manually excluding doc/translations >> changes and changes in the test suite then we get the slightly more >> palatable diff attached: >> >> 37 files changed, 245 insertions(+), 165 deletions(-) >> >> Also notable is that Movable Type have mentioned several security issues >> being fixed in rc5, though they aren't too specific: >> >> http://www.movabletype.org/2008/08/movable_type_42_rc5_and_security_updates.html >> >> Given all this, the low popcon count and lack of reverse dependencies, >> and the fact that Six Apart do a *lot* of their own QA, I think that the >> final package is a suitable candidate for lenny. > > Hi, > > Without wishing to hassle, I just wanted to check that this hadn't been > forgotten about (since it was a reply to an old thread). > > I'm away for a week from this afternoon in case there are any further > questions, but the package is otherwise ready to migrate.
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