Le 2015-02-04 09:01, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
it's been two weeks that I have opened this pre-approval request and I got almost no feedback from the release team (except Neil saying that he has no answer for me on IRC).
Neil or Niels? I can understand why the former doesn't have any answer for you on this subject. The latter might not have make his mind yet on this because it is not an easy subject. Anyway. I don't think this request has been overlooked during the few past weeks. I think that easier requests have been privileged which leaves the harder ones that need more thinking.
If I don't hear back from you in the next two days, I will proceed with what I believe to be best, which is:
Do you think such a statement helps you in any way? python-django is a complex an important package shipped by Debian and it gets uploaded to fix security issues quite regularly. Shipping an old version doesn't seem a great plan because it is taking the risk of not being able to perform security updates in the future, and/or introduce regressions while backporting non-trivial patches. Somehow, the question boils down to "How much do we care about the security?". The non-trivial part is to try to draw a line to know what should be allowed to be updated using new upstream releases, and what doesn't. An effort has been made into this direction (See packages like linux, iceweasel, postgresql, etc...) but I think that there is still room for improvement there. So while I can understand your frustration, please be more patient next time because the requests are not trivial (and there are of bunch of them). We are trying to do our best and we will eventually reply to all requests. Anyway. Based on my blabla about security stuff, I've decided to unblock this package so that it migrates to Jessie. Note that this doesn't mean that we will accept (let's say) 1.7.5 next time. Regards, -- Mehdi _______________________________________________ Python-modules-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/python-modules-team
