<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#2e3436" link="#2a76c6" vlink="#2e3436"><div>Hi Paul,</div><div><span><pre><pre><br></pre></pre></span></div><div>On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 19:39 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>Hi Abou,
On 20-02-2019 16:15, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
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Are there strong opinions about including this in buster (or not)? If
nobody pushes for it, I think I'll keep it in experimental until after
the release.
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I would like to have this in next stable.
Is there a particular reason to not have it there?
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The reason is that we are in soft freeze and this is very much against
the spirit of it [1]:
"""
Starting 2019-02-12, only small, targeted fixes are appropriate for
buster. We want maintainers to focus on small, targeted fixes. This is
mainly, at the maintainers discretion, there will be no hard rule that
will be enforced.
"""</pre><pre></pre></blockquote><div>I see the point, but as you said this a soft freeze, and tests performed by Graham show everything is OK</div><div>I'd say that from a user point of view, having the latest release is buster will make much difference.</div><div>Otherwise people will turn in direction of non official deb packages and this will be a pity.</div><div><br></div><div>As we only have a few days before hard freeze, let's push this.</div><div><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir</pre></div></body></html>