Bug#749843: (no subject)

[Olly Betts]

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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:35:58AM +0100, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> I plan to leave this boinc_7.2.47+dfsg-3 reach testing (in two days), in
> order to have the last major backport for wheezy (because the new release
> won't be backported because of the wx version)

I might look at providing a backport of wx3, but I doubt I'll have time to
for a few months.  If someone else wanted to backport it sooner I certainly
wouldn't object though.

> Do you have any timeline for the switch?

Not really.  The transition tracker says 32 good : 56 bad, though 4 are
just waiting for buildds, so it's probably more like 36 good : 52 bad:

https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/wxwidgets3.0.html

There's quite a lot of packages with patches in the BTS though, so 
maintainer reaction to the recently raised severities and/or an NMU session
could change the picture significantly.

> We are cleaning up our patches, I would like to don't mess unstable with too
> many uploads.
> 
> Just tell me when is the last chance to upload and I'll do it :)

I'd suggest uploading it once you're happy you've got a wx2.8-using version
suitable for backporting in testing.  Leaving it to the last minute is
problematic if there's an unforeseen problem.

Cheers,
    Olly