[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] ia32-libs update for lenny (2.7+lenny1)

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 02:40:52PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On tiisdei 20 July 2010, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > Hi Goswin,
> > 
> > On moandei 28 Juny 2010, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > > Besides from this thought the current updated packages look correct.
> > > 
> > > A number of them have had further updates since you prepared this package
> > > version. If you wish you can update them to include those fixes aswell,
> > > would  be nice.
> > > 
> > > As for the changes to ia32-libs packaging, the following three changes
> > > are
> > > 
> > > not  acceptable in a stable-security upload:
> > >   * Add misc depends for debhelper.
> > >   * Add lots of lintian overrides where nothing can be done about them.
> > >   * Bump debhelper compat to 5.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps they were made to address Lintian reports. It is not necessary
> > > (or even desirable) to do that kind of cleanup in a stable upload.
> > > Please revert  those.
> > 
> > Just curious how things are going with this?
> 
> Also, now that squeeze has been frozen, I think it's essential to also make an 
> upload for ia32-libs for squeeze, perhaps in september or so when the biggest 
> inflow of packages is over. Then we'll have a much better supportable version 
> for the squeeze lifetime. Ideally, based on which packages will change during 
> the freeze, another catch-up upload when the release is very near, and/or an 
> upload in the first point release are also very much preferred.