[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#511000: gEDA-user: geda in Lenny (was Re: Creating system-gafrc again)

[Richard Hartmann]

Any update? Top-posting in to make relating easier.


RIchard

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:53, Richard Hartmann
<richih.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>