On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 05:18:08PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > > Most of the time, i'm perfectly happy to have a buggy version of > Shorewall in Debian. The bugs are usually minor and only encountered > under very specific circumstances. I consider that the cost of running > a distribution that focuses on low-churn, stable releases, and it's more > than worth it to me. > I think that there is a bit of confusion over what is being considered here. Even if Tom changes nothing with respect to his release process, I will still be able to get the necessary important bug fixes into Debian during the freeze period.
I will be able to do this by patching in just the relevant bug fixes and incrementing the Debian revision, or by uploading the new upstream releases of just the changed packages. What I had originally asked Tom that spwaned this discussion thread was if it was really necessary to always release all the packages for a point release, whether or not they had all been changed. It seems like there is sufficient controversy surrounding this particular issue so as to not warrant making a change at this time, given that the primary purpose at this point would be to keep the point release version numbers in sync with what is likely to be in Debian during a freeze/stable release. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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