On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 14:04:26 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 15:32 +0100, Tino Mettler wrote:
> > Hi Patrick,
> > 
> > I just want to let you know that 1.4.99.4 is now in Debian unstable. I
> > hope it will therefore become part of the next Debian stable release.
> 
> That's good, thanks for your help.
> 
> I noticed this week in an unrelated article about the systemd GR that
> there is a feature freeze deadline coming up for Debian early next week.
> 
> Do you think it would be possible to get SyncEvolution 1.5 into that if
> I release it this weekend? The changes compared to 1.4.99.4 are minor,
> but some of the changes may be relevant for users. 

Just plain no, because the freeze affects Debian testing. Every package
must be in testing at the time of the freeze. However, new packages are
uploaded to Debian unstable, and unstable-to-testing migration was set
to 10 days. Therefore, the deadline for new packages that should become
a part of Jessie was last Sunday. That's why I submitted the first
1.4.99.2 package last Saturday, and another package with a small fix
last Sunday. :-) So let's hope that no important bugs are found that
would prevent the migration to testing for the 1.4.99.2 package.
Otherwise, Jessie will be shipped with 1.4.

Updates will only be allowed if they fix important bug, and only these
bugs.  As usual, New upstream versions won't be possible, fixes have to be
backported.

If you point me to critical bugs that affects users of the Debian
package including a fix (or a git commit that contains the fix), I
could try to provide updated packages.

> It would be "cleaner"
> to have a regular release in Debian, too.

I know. It just didn't work out.

Regards,
Tino
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