On 07/26/2012 11:36 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Hello Michael, > > Thank you for your work! > > First small comment, instead of adding debian-science to CC, next time > use X-Debbugs-CC. The difference is: if in CC reply-all adds submit@ and > you get a loop of filing new bugs, in X-Debbugs-CC only > ######@bugs.debian.org will be in the loop.
Oops, sorry. Didn't know that. I just hope I'll remember the next time ;-) > > Now about the rest follows: > [...] > > ok. > >> I think with the modifications I made I fixed some important bugs, some >> of which I would consider to be RC. E.g. 0.1.0-1 contained some non-free >> source and documentation files. Also, the documentation as it is >> currently installed is pretty buggy and does not work as expected. Also, >> the *.so symlinks where not split off into the libfreefoam-dev package >> and the Python files where not separated into python* packages. >> > > currently there are no open RC bugs against the package. > > If there are RC bugs (as per policy that is, not as per your own > standards ;-) ), please open them and use the correct Version: header. Ok, thanks for clarifying that. Will do. > >> Some of these bugs I fixed directly in the upstream project, resulting >> in FreeFOAM-0.1.2, a pure bug-fix version. Then I imported this new >> upstream release, and applied all my fixes to the package, whose >> changelog you can see above. >> > > The packaging changes are intrusive (e.g. introducing new binary > packages, new upstream release, packaging changes, etc). This is not > acceptable for a freeze exception, given that none of these things close > any of RC bugs.... (you should open them hint hint ;-) ) That's what I feared. But thanks to the wonders of git this shouldn't be too much work... > >> Now, my question is how I should proceed properly. Is it acceptable to >> upload freefoam-0.1.2-1 despite the freeze given that the new version is >> only a bug-fix release? >> > > It is fine to upload as it is into experimental. > It is fine to backport this into wheezy-backports, post release. > If you want some fixes in wheezy, open RC bugs, and fix said RC bugs > only (mini-packaging fork). > > Will do. Thanks for your help. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
