Freddie Chopin <freddie_cho...@op.pl> wrote: > As for the Debian "problem"... The maintainer of the package is - > from what I remember - a member of this list and OpenOCD contributor.
I'm not primary maintainer, but well, I happen to do uploads from time to time. I'm mostly speaking for myself here, but would like to relax this thread wrt. Debian "issues". > If there is a problem why not speak earlier - the idea of release was > around for over a month, stable package in Debian is 0.5.0 which was > released over a year ago so that's not a new problem and it was NEVER > mentioned. As Paul mentioned before, 0.5.0 is in stable and 0.6.1-1 (will be soon) in testing. Both of them build fine on ARM (armel and armhf) and I don't have any personal arm build machine. I tried to give 0.7.0~rc a spin and I catched one (arm7tdmi related) regression, but not the build problem for arm. > If the matter is so urgent to warrant 0.7.1 why it's mentioned NOW, > not after 0.6.1 (released 7 months ago) failed to meet Debian's > policies? Not to mention 0.7.0-rc1 and 0.7.0-rc2 which were done > specifically for that purpose... Yes and no. 0.6.1 was fine, so I suspect the regression was introduced later and that's why we didn't spot it. Apart from that, you're probably right: my bad that I didn't tried the -rc on an arm autobuilder, and thanks to Paul for trying and reporting. For the case being, I don't see this as a big problem. Yes, 0.7.0 is going to fail on arm builders. Yes, bug has been reported and patches are being reviewed. Yes, you'll probably have to release a 0.7.1 in the not-so-distant future. And yes, downstream (eg. Debian) can temporarily ship 0.7.0 with the cherry-picked patches in the meanwhile (iff they're blessed by upstream). I believe that you, as release manager, are the one who finally decide about bug priority, and thus merging or not a commit. Part of this work is subjective and there are high chances that somebody is not going agree; but that's life :) I acknowledge that it isn't an easy work, so kudos for doing it. Cheers, Luca -- .''`. | ~<[ Luca BRUNO ~ (kaeso) ]>~ : :' : | Email: lucab (AT) debian.org ~ Debian Developer `. `'` | GPG Key ID: 0x3BFB9FB3 ~ Free Software supporter `- | HAM-radio callsign: IZ1WGT ~ Networking sorcerer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may _______________________________________________ OpenOCD-devel mailing list OpenOCD-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openocd-devel
