[DRE-maint] Lenny release team summary (important! read this!)

[Paul van Tilburg]

Hi!

Another update.  We should finish our release tasks this weekend
by a big mail to debian-release.

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 02:36:51PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:19:07PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > The summary (information gathered from QA report, PTS, BTS):
> > 
> > | Newer upstream available (7)
> > |             libdb4.2-ruby       0.6.2-3 < 0.6.5
> > |             libdb4.3-ruby       0.6.2-2 < 0.6.5                     
> > |             libdb4.4-ruby       0.6.2-1 < 0.6.5                       
> > 
> > Michael Schutte is working on it.  The libdb-ruby is already on 0.6.5 in
> > sid, not in testing just yet.  These source pakages should be removed and
> > libdb-ruby's libdbX.Y-ruby package should provide for a transition.
> 
> Status of this work? Anyone?

Done!  Also the breaking reverse depends (gonzui) have been taken
care of.

> > | NEW and incoming (1)
> > |             libcairo-ruby                     S #487204  pending        
> > 
> > This bug, severity serious, has been fixed in 1.6.3.  However, 1.5.1
> > is in Lenny.  I worked for months on the new upstream.  I'd really like
> > to have 1.6.3 in Lenny.  If we cannot get the exeception, then we have
> > a 1.5.1+bugfix in the branches.
> 
> The 1.6.3 upstream is in Sid now.  A release block exception should
> be requested.

Ok, we decided to go with 1.5.1-1+lenny1 which contains a specific
fix for this RC bug and no more.  It's in testing-proposed-updates.

> > | Ready for upload (1)
> > |             libgd-ruby                        I #472438  svn-released:pending        
> > 
> > All fixed and ready.  Except it segfaults on amd64!  I would appreciate some
> > help here, because we need to have this version in Lenny IMO.
> 
> Still need help here.

Still need help!

> > | Work in progress (2)
> > |             libgems-ruby                        #403407  wontfix        
> > |                                                 #485739
> > |                                                 #448639
> > |                                                 #405789
> > |                                                 #466189
> > 
> > All normal or wishlist bugs.  Though, a few seem "important" to me, but ok.
> > Two questions.
> > 
> >  1. RubyGems 1.2.0 is not in Lenny, I think it should be? Or not?
> >     If so, we need an exception.
> >  2. The libgems-ruby package doesn't seem to contain a 'rubygems' dummy
> >     package to depend on 'rubygems1.8'. Is this not a RC bug?
> 
> More bugreports were filed, mostly related to (2).  This needs to
> be addressed.  I am sure it is a RC bug now (grave -> #495320).

These bugs do not occur in the testing version of libgems-ruby (Lenny
also does not contain the reworked rubygems packages, just 1.1.1-1.
There seems to be an agreement to keep it as it is, because new upstream
(1.2.0, containing the reworked pkg structure) is too big a difference
in upstream any.
The rev. depends are currently fixed in Sid, but not broken in Lenny either
before it was before the rework.

> > |             liblocale-ruby                   I? #470798
> > 
> > This bug should be severity "important".  Antonio and I agree that the
> > easiest solution would be to have it removed from Lenny and really solve
> > it well for Lenny +1.  Note that liblocale-ruby{,1.8} have no
> > reverse depends.
> 
> The release team should be asked to remove it for Lenny.

Still needs to happen, yes.

> > |             libxtemplate-ruby1.8              I #472430
> > 
> > Gotta work on this and straighten it out. Not much work though.
> 
> Handled by Gunnar and solved in Sid.  A release block exception
> should be requested.

Indeed.

> 
> > |             ruby-gnome2                       I #493063
> > 
> > A recent important bug, haven't investigated it. May be inreproducible.
> 
> More grave/important bugs were filed!  One of them is another
> "objects creation during garbage collection phase" problem.
> Sjoerd suggested that he has a few patches for this.  These should be
> applied and tested.  Afterwards a release exception block should be
> requested.

The RC bug has been fixed in 0.17.0~rc1-4, which is in Sid.
What about #493063?

Paul

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