[pkg-gnupg-maint] gpgme 1.7.0~ alpha or beta to debian experimental?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Sat 2016-09-10 21:19:49 +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 19:00, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:
>> It occurs to me that we could try doing this packaging in debian
>> experimental, using a snapshot from upstream git as an upstream tarball
>> instead of waiting for the official 1.7.0.
>
> I had to change the ABI for non-released stuff recently and there is
> small chance that it will happen again before the release.  But well,
> that new code is not yet in use by any Debian package.

One advantage of putting things into debian experimental is that we
don't have to worry as much about ABI stability -- while we wouldn't
want really radical changes, the folks who use debian experimental can
generally be expected to understand and deal with some minor ABI
breakage, particularly in functionality that is not yet part of any
other debian-distributed package (i.e. if it only happens to things in
experimental in the first place).

> Missing items for the release are support for the new --quick commands
> and for --tofu-policy.  I'll work on this next week; gpgme 1.7.0 has
> currently top priority.

happy to hear it.

thanks for the followup,

      --dkg
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