[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#694015: Bug#694015: geda-gaf: diff for NMU version 1:1.6.2-4.3

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:18:29 -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote:

> > Having it in unstable now would be unfortunate (with or without this
> > fix) since a new upstream version would most probably not migrate to
> > testing, meaning we'd need an upload to testing-proposed-updates.
> There's a balance here, but in my opinion it is *way* past time for 1.8
> to be in unstable.

Ok.
 
> > I guess it makes sense to cancel the NMU since both Ahmed and you are
> > looking after the package, and let you sort out the best way to
> > proceed?
> [shrug]  I have no interest at all in 1.6 at this point, so if you think
> fixing this bug in wheezy is important, maybe a testing-proposed-updates
> upload would still be useful?  

Or removing 1.6 from testing?

In any case, I've cancelled the NMU now in order not to inferfere
with the 1.8 version in NEW.
 
> FWIW, let me explain why I don't care about 1.6 any more.

[..]

Thank you for the details.
 
> This obviously conflicts with the idea of keeping unstable available as a
> path for easy patch migration to testing, though.  Personally, having
> bits in unstable that are useful to me is much more important than
> fixing wheezy right now, since I'm already resigned to the idea that
> we're going to have to do builds for backports to keep geda-gaf and pcb
> useful to wheezy users in the future.

I see; this also sounds a bit like it's not worth releasing wheezy
with 1.6?

Cheers,
gregor

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