Bug#629566: Bug#645264: Needs update for GNOME 3 / brasero 3

[Michael Biebl]

Am 14.10.2011 09:12, schrieb Helge Kreutzmann:
> Hello Michael,
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:05:39PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Source: goobox
>> Version: 2.2.0-4
>> Severity: serious
>>
>> brasero 3.0 has just been uploaded to unstable.
>> This makes goobox uninstallable and FTBFS.
> 
> First of all thanks for that.
> 
>> Apparently, goobox already has an updated version in experimental.
>> Please upload that version to unstable as soon as possible.
>  
> Actually, I feel a little annoyed here. A new upstream version of
> goobox required the new version of brasero which was only in
> experimental at that time, so I uploaded to experimental and filed a
> bug against brasero (629566) in June requesting an upload to unstable. This
> bug was never even acknowledged. 

I think both bigon and I commented, so it is not true, that there was no
acknowledgement or communication.

> In the mean time I had to do an interim upload because the very same
> GNOME team had done a transition (again, without prior information)
> which left the choice of leaving testing or putting out an intrim
> version. 
> 
> An now you file a *serious* bug against goobox, again without even a
> simple (advance) notice[1] to me nor #629566. To be this is a very
> impolite way of dealing with other developers and dependent packages. 
> 
> Im looking forward to better communication/collaboration from the
> GNOME team in the future avoiding unnecessary work for both sides.
> 
> Regarding this bug I'm unable to do this right now (which could have
> been prevented by advanced information, but I disgress). I hope to
> deal with it in the upcoming week, though. 

sorry to hear that you are annoyed by this.
The simple fact is, that GNOME 3 means a lot of different (library) transitions
which need to be coordinated to avoid breakage as much as possible.

In your case, there was no unnecessary work.
We simply couldn't upload brasero in June. The alternative would have been to
remove goobox from testing temporarily which would of course have been the worse
alternative.

The GNOME team got the go for the GNOME 3 transition from the release team 2
days ago. So we couldn't give you an advance warning earlier.

Please keep in mind that we have 200+ packages + their reverse dependencies and
I'd guess we had around 20 transitions to this day.

So long and thanks in advance,
Michael

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