Bug#760058: Will Ogre 1.8 remain in Jessie? (Was: The other packages)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2015-04-29 4:10 GMT+01:00 Olek <olek_nospam at suddenlinkmail.com>:
>
> On 04/27/2015 05:41 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
>>
>> 2014-10-25 15:05 GMT+01:00 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
>> <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> 2014-10-25 12:21 Olek:
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>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know if Ogre 1.8 will actually be removed from testing? If
>>>> so,
>>>> something needs to be done with ember.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I do not plan to actively ask to remove it at this point, but it is not
>>> possible to reply to your question with all certainty.
>>> [...]
>>
>>
>> Raising the severity to serious now.  In the end it was shipped in
>> Jessie, but I will ask this old OGRE version to be removed from
>> unstable soon, at which point this package will fail to build from
>> source.
>>
>
> Thanks for the update! Unfortunately, life has been quite busy here. I'm
> hoping to resume my prior packaging rhythm soon but it might be another
> month or so. Difficult to tell at the moment.
>
> I know Stephen is pretty busy as well. If he doesn't have time to get to
> this then I'll look at it as soon as I'm able to.

There is no immediate rush to do that, but I don't want to leave it
for very long.  Perhaps in the meantime I will submit a RC bug to it
so it does not get included in testing/next-stable, ember will be
auto-removed from testing, but that's it.

Anyway, the worst that can happen if ember is not upgraded in months
is that if I ask ogre-1.8 to be removed from unstable and FTP masters
agree while having reverse-dependencies still in unstable, the ember
package will FTBFS for a while, and eventually if this is not fixed,
it would be removed.

Even then, ember can be reintroduced in the archive at any point after
that.  Since the package has to be upgraded to a new upstream version,
it will have to go through the FTP NEW queue anyway, which is the most
slow/annoying part.

So this was a heads-up to tell you about my plans so you can plan
accordingly, but there's no need to rush or get too stressed even if
things get to the worse possible scenario :-)


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>