[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#781232: Bug#766884: libxml2 broken in sid for months already

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hello,

On Fri, 04 Sep 2015, Aron Xu wrote:
> It's not a reason that you just revert back to an older version
> because it's easy to do so. If you want to make it the same version,
> choose the harder but more correct way as libxml2 is not a trivial
> package with low impact.

Hey, don't give me lessons. I'm not the libxml2 maintainer who left
#766884 unattended since october last year...

And I announced my plans in the bug report and I had no response from
you until a few days ago.

I did not pick an easy solution, mind you, I spent multiple hours to
prepare the upload as I had to re-introduce patches that you did
push through via a testing-proposed-updades upload.

I did that because I believe that this was the correct course of action
given the lack of proper fix upsream, not because it was an easy solution.

Adding a single patch to revert the change that triggered the bug would
have been easier and in retrospect, it's probably what I should have done.
But even then it's just hiding the bug under the carpet. The real bug
is still waiting to be fixed...

> > But this bug should not prevent the migration of the package to testing
> > since the package in sid does not exhibit the problem currently. So
> > I'm reducing its severity to important in particular since you do not seem
> > to want to close it until a proper fix is available upstream.
> 
> I don't want to close it, nor I want make this version to testing, so
> please don't lower the severity, as said above.

Why don't you want this version into testing?

That doesn't forbid you to push 2.9.2 with the problematic commit reverted
later on. And have this one reach testing too.

Anything that is in unstable should go into testing, otherwise you should
use experimental.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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