On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 10:51 -0400, The Anarcat wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 01:56:55PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > On Mon, August 23, 2010 09:41, The Anarcat wrote: > > > In fact, we are very close to getting 0.4 out the door. That release > > > will be maintained for stability and security fixes, and would be a much > > > better candidate for Squeeze than 0.3. [...] > > How close is "very close"? How large is the diff between the current > > Debian package and 0.4? > > a) very close is a few weeks before a beta, probably a few months > before a complete release > > b) the diff is very large. a lot of parts have been re-written.
Unfortunately neither of those is great during a freeze; "a few months" before the package would be available doesn't sound "very close", imho. > > Given the apparent low usage of the package (at least according to popcon) > > and the lack of reverse-dependencies, it may be worth considering removing > > the package. > > That would be unfortunate, as it would mean I would have to maintain a > separate archive for the public packages I can't really judge whether releasing with 0.3 would be preferable than not releasing anything at all; your earlier mail appeared to suggest that it would not be. > ... or would it be uploadable > to backports? In general, it would only be uploadable to backports once it was in testing. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
