[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#510995: gEDA-user: geda in Lenny (was Re: Creating system-gafrc again)

[Hamish Moffatt]

Hi,

I'm a bit confused about what's needed/expected here.

For the lenny release we can only expect to fix RC bugs at this time.
This means the copyright/licensing fix, and possibly taking the most
critical stuff from 1.4.3 and incorporating it.

I can't ask for all of 1.4.3 to be included because we're in freeze and
have been since before 1.4.3's release.

In order to get any fixes into our 1.4.0 packages we need bug reports
against the relevant packages. I don't have any information about what's
fixed else I would open relevant bug reports myself.

I will upload fixes for the licensing bug tonight.

Hamish

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 06:12:18PM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> 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
> >

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