On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:50:43AM +0000, Daniel Glassey wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Matthew Talbert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Our current Xiphos packager (Dima) is awol (I believe temporarily), so > > I wondered if anyone else could help out getting the latest 3.1.4 > > release into Debian. As far as I know, nothing regarding the actual > > packaging should need changing, just update the current package with > > the latest Xiphos source. > > Thanks for the poke. I hope someone else can get to it before I can > but just to point out - Debian is currently in freeze for the release > of squeeze so no new versions of any software will be accepted in > regular uploads. We can still upload it to experimental so that it is > available for anyone that wants it. > And we can make uploads to the Ubuntu ppa so that they can go through > that process to try to get into the next version of Ubuntu. > > Though, if there were any serious bugs fixed in 3.1.4 then we should > backport the fixes into the Debian version of 3.1.3 > > Does anyone know if it is possible to make the debs built for Debian > to be made available in the Ubuntu ppa? >
Matthew, My apologies for the delay in replying. I have been completely swamped with work. I agree with Daniel that we should think carefully about uploading a new upstream version. Experimental is almost certainly the way to go as far as Debian is concerned. Uploading to unstable is problematic because if a problem is found with the package in Squeeze, then an update has to go through testing-proposed-updates, which is annoying to do. If you want, then I might be able to help with a new xiphos package next week. Something else to consider is that if there are specific features or bug fixes in the new upstream release, then we can look at cherry picking them and uploading a patched version of 3.1.3 to unstable with the intent of having it transition to Squeeze. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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