On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:30:17AM -0000, Axel Beckert wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > Is there a summary available of the upstream changes (in particular, any > > changes that aren't straightforward bugfixes)?
> Since the current package is from more than one year ago, there surely > are. Right, but can you tell me what those are? Bugfixes don't require a Feature Freeze exception, features do; if we're to grant a freeze exception, I want to know what I'm excepting. > > If there are non-bugfix changes here, why do these warrant a freeze > > exception? > The main reason is that the package was out of sync with Debian for a > while because it didn't work anymore with Ubuntu's xulrunner (which > doesn't allow xulrunner-stub to be symlinked) and hasn't been synced > anymore after that problem has been fixed in Debian in January. OTOH, you've also pointed out the two commits you care about; so if the update as a whole seems risky due to the non-bugfix changes, is there a reason not to cherry-pick just those changes? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- [FFe] merge conkeror 0.9.1+git100220-1 from debian testing to get xulrunner-1.9.2 support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537900 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
