Current status?

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-10-21 Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at paniq.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 03:15 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
[...]
> > I completely agree that we should set the standard high.  However, for
> > the moment I am content to get something into Etch that may only be
> > marginally better than what is there now. This stems from observation
> > that I made earlier about us possibly getting stuck maintaining a very
> > diffucult maintain package for another entire release cycle.

> I'm not sure I understand what you mean by the last sentence. If our
> package goes into etch, our work load will not decrease -- quite the
> opposite. We will have to maintain the version in etch, by supporting
> users and taking care of possible security issues in cooperation with
> the security team. We might have to prepare roll-up versions for point
> releases. In addition to that, we will have our development branch where
> we continue to improve the package for the next stable release by making
> uploads to unstable. So in this sense, we are already "stuck"
> maintaining this package, because we are the team whose job it is to do
> so.
[...]

Hello,
I think the point Roberto was trying to make was that it would be less
work to have 2.1.22 (i.e. newest latest upstream) with unpolished
Debian packaging in etch than shipping the ancient
2.1.19+loadsofpatches. The former will be a lot easier to handle with
respect to security updates.
          cu andreas
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