Hi Seb, On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 10:09:00PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey everyone,
> I'm unsure who to ask for feedback so I'm emailing that list. > Is there anyone having an objection syncing make 2.82 [1] from > Debian experimental? > - the version is out of over 2 years > - it's in fedora for about 2 years > - it's in Debian experimental for a year > The new version fixes a stack of bugs, it seems Debian found an > issue they consider important (breaking compatibility in some > cases), upstream doesn't have the same opinion and documentation > that with a "WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!" in their NEWS, the > bug didn't get any activity for almost a year. > The reason I'm asking is because I ran into issues trying to update > webkit this week and build needs a make update (and a patch over the > new version) to build correctly, which let us with the options to > update make, or trying to backport fixes for it, or try to > workaround on the webkit side... > Is anyone here having a strong opinion on the topic? If nobody says > to not to do I will probably sync the new version for quantal I don't think this should be synced without doing a full test rebuild of the archive (main+universe) using the new version. This is core infrastructure, *every single* package in the archive uses it to build and we have no idea what the impact of these backwards-incompatible changes will be. It's probably a lot simpler to go with one of the other two options. -- 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]
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