[Pkg-clamav-devel] Another upload?

Scott Kitterman debian at kitterman.com
Fri Mar 27 10:42:42 UTC 2009


On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:35:32 +0100 Michael Tautschnig <mt at debian.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:35:15 +0000 Stephen Gran <sgran at debian.org> wrote:
>> >Hey everyone,
>> >
>> >I just did some upgrade testing, and did some fixups for the various
>> >hiccups I found while testing various things.  Since all of these are
>> >pretty clearly low hanging fruit that will hit people doing an upgrade
>> >or a fresh install, what do people think about another upload?
>> >
>> >I know that ideally we'd wait for the fixed templates for the milter,
>> >but I think it's probably better to have a clean upgrade path than to
>> >wait for better language at this point.
>> >
>> >We should also start thinking about volatile - I'll take a look at what
>> >can be cherry-picked onto that branch.
>> 
>> I have a couple of inputs I'll try to get you in the morning.
>> 
>
>I'm all for another upload, but I'd like to discuss a few bits of last 
night's
>patches - I'm online on IRC, which is probably more suitable for quick Q&A.
>
>Volatile: yes, definitely, but I'd like to see the new packages mature a 
few
>days before doing a volatile upload. What about rdepends - aren't we going 
to
>break these?
>
>And while we are at it: Should I mail to debian-release to request binNMUs 
of
>our rdepends?
>
It will break them.  I think it's also important to mail the affected 
maintainers.  There was a good summary of the changes that aCaB showed us 
(I'm away from my computer, so I don't have a link) that I think we should 
make sure they are aware of.

Scott K



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