On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 01:21:30PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Uploaded. There may be a point release with translation updates > and potentially minor bugfixes at some point in the next month or so. >
Great, thanks. > > gutenprint 5.2.8 > > This is a point release with a large number of new printer > > models being supported. It was released 2 days ago, but we've > > been waiting on it for months. Quite important for including > > with wheezy for contemporary printer support. I will package > > it this weekend. > > This is done, but I found that upstream accidentally bumped the > major version of the libgutenprint2 ABI. They are planning to release > 5.2.9 with my patches for correcting the mistake. They should do this > by the weekend, but it's possible this will miss the freeze deadline. > It would be good to have a freeze exception for this--the work is all > done and tested, just waiting on the update from upstream. I can > apply my patches directly to the 5.2.8 release any upload now, or I > could wait for them to release properly. > I would suggest uploading the patched version and then updating to increase the amount of testing it receives. > > Additionally: > > sbuild. I'll be working on this once the above two are done. It's > > not had much work done on it over the last year due to lack of time > > finishing my PhD and moving jobs, but it does need some bugs fixing > > for wheezy. This won't have impact on anything else. It would be > > great if this could be considered for wheezy after the freeze starts > > because it's unlikely I'll have time until then to start work on it. > > sbuild is often used by developers who are running stable to build > packages for unstable. So it's important that the stable sbuild be > able to support all the features needed during wheezy+1 (at least as > far as that is possible). I definitely won't have this done for the > freeze--I've got to get sysvinit fixed as a priority. It's functional > as it stands, but could be better--there are quite a number of bugs > I'd like to get addressed for wheezy. > If there's important fixes to apply, these can be managed with some small updates. Have a look at http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html which is in DRAFT form until we freeze of an idea of what may be accepted. Thanks, Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
