[DRE-maint] Bug#606296: Bug#606296: libnokogiri-ruby: FTBFS: test fails

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 08/12/10 at 10:46 -0500, Mike Dalessio wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net>wrote:
> 
> > On 08/12/10 at 10:27 -0500, Mike Dalessio wrote:
> > > This is a bug in the Nokogiri test, where behavior that changed in libxml
> > > 2.7.7 was not checked for with libxml > 2.7.7.
> > >
> > > This has been corrected in the Nokogiri repository, and you can see the
> > > change at
> > >
> > https://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/commit/abe249425bef0356f54408b89c9f376c62862e87
> >
> > OK, thanks!
> >
> > > <
> > https://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/commit/abe249425bef0356f54408b89c9f376c62862e87
> > >I
> > > might also suggest upgrading to Nokogiri 1.4.4, which has a great many
> > > bugfixes since 1.4.0.
> >
> > Does it contain only bugfixes?
> 
> 
> No, there are also backwards-compatible features. See the CHANGELOG.rdoc for
> details.
> 
> 
> > Could the interest of each of them be
> > justified in front of the release team?
> 
> 
> I don't understand what you're asking me. I don't know what the process
> looks like. So I need a little bit of context around this before I can
> answer your question.

We are quite far away in the release process of squeeze. Usually,
new features also bring new bugs, so Debian has a strategy of not
accepting newer releases so that we can shake out old bugs without
adding new ones.

If the new nokogiri release had only bug fixes, it could be possible to
ask for permission to upload it to squeeze. But it doesn't look possible
since it also contain new features.

So it's better to backport the most important bugfixes to the version
currently in squeeze.

- Lucas