[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#510993: gEDA-user: geda in Lenny (was Re: Creating system-gafrc again)

[Richard Hartmann]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 05:39, Peter Clifton <pcjc2 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> There were some patches ready to push the license fix, but Richard, who
> did those is holding off as I mentioned that Hamish promised 1.4.3
> packages whilst he was at LCA. In any case.. we might be forced just to
> have the licence fix, rather than a new upstream version + license fix.

If need be, I can finalize the packages & get a sponsor within 24 hours.
It would be a NMU and I am not a DD, but the bugs are RC and there was
ample time for the maintainer to react, so hey.
Just say the word and I will get going.

Hamish: What is your take on this, if any?


>> , and maybe throw in a fix for #507363 for good measure.
>
> That's not critical, and isn't something I expect they would want to
> change during the freeze. At least 1.4.0 -> 1.4.3 is just carefully
> back-ported (and well tested) code changes fixing crash bugs.
>
> Don't underestimate the likelihood of a "simple" packaging fix causing
> major breakage. Its always the last minute one-liner which breaks a
> release ;)

Personally, I would tend to split the fixes into as many packages as
possible so RMs can cherry-pick, anyway.


Richard