Please accept exim4 4.92 (final version) into unstable

[Matthias Kurz]

Hi Andreas,

> I know. I manually switch the watchfile to/from test during/after an exim
> release cyle. If you know a way to let the watchfile search *both* in
> exim4/ and exim4/test/ I would be happy to hear about it.

Sorry, I don't know. I am not at all involved in Debian development at this
point.

> I am currently waiting for rc6 (which is identical to the release except
> for the version string) to migrate to testing.

Great, good to know.

> Can Ubuntu sync from experimental?

Again, I don't know.

So I guess we just have to wait... I would assume there is a way to still
upload packages to Ubuntu repos after Ubuntu's "debian import freeze",
given that it is probably not desirable to ship RC's when a GA is available
already...

Kind regards,

Matthias

On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 13:30, Andreas Metzler <ametzler at bebt.de> wrote:

> Hello Matthias,
>
> On 2019-02-17 Matthias Kurz <m.kurz at irregular.at> wrote:
> [...]
> >
> https://downloads.exim.org/exim4/test/exim-(\d.*)\.(?:tgz|tar\.(?:gz|bz2|xz))
>
> > Looks like there is no package inside the "/test/" folder (anymore) [2].
> > However exim-4.92.tar.* files exist in the parent folder [3].
>
> I know. I manually switch the watchfile to/from test during/after an exim
> release cyle. If you know a way to let the watchfile search *both* in
> exim4/ and exim4/test/ I would be happy to hear about it.
>
> > Given that eximdoc4 4.92 final [4] did land in unstable already [5]
> > shouldn't the exim4 package itself be uploaded as well now?
>
> I am currently waiting for rc6 (which is identical to the release except
> for the version string) to migrate to testing.
> <https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=exim4>
>
> > We would like to have exim4 4.92 available in Ubuntu 19.04 ("Disco
> Dingo"),
> > which has it's "Debian Import Freeze" on February 21st (just 4 days left)
> > [6].
>
> > If someone could upload the final version (to both Debian and Ubuntu
> repos)
> > that would be really great.
>
> I have uploaded 4.92-1 to experimental, to get buildd coverage and plan
> to upload to unstable on Wednesday. - Can Ubuntu sync from experimental?
>
> cu Andreas
> --
> `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are
> so grateful to you.'
> `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
>
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