Hi Joey, On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 07:23:12AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > My plan for v8 was to put in as many good things as possible before > the freeze, and call it finished when the freeze happened. This will > avoid needing to backport debhelper when backporting packages that use > v8, after the release. The only real impact of this change is that > lintian may also need an update, in order to stop warning on v8 use. >
This seems eminently sensible. > I also have two code changes that I made some time ago and didn't get > around to uploading, which I'd *prefer* to also include in debhelper > 8.0.0. The first of these is a minor permissions fix for files in > /etc/sudoers.d/ for #589574 (see debhelper-patch-2). > This seems fine. > The other patch (debhelper-patch-3) is the riskiest, passing --force > to setup.py could conceivably cause breakage. One option would be to > only enable this in v8 mode, which would make sure it doesn't break > any existing packages. > At this stage of the release, I'd probably prefer to see the latter used, not breaking existing packages can be considered a good thing. Neil -- < wjt> THINK OF THE TREES < rjek> ... THAT WE BURNT TO MAKE THE ELECTONS TO SEND THIS EMAIL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
