Bug#909288: transition: kdepim 18.08

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 16/10/2018 21:50, Pino Toscano wrote:
> In data lunedì 15 ottobre 2018 18:17:57 CEST, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ha scritto:
>> On 15/10/2018 16:37, Sandro Knauß wrote:
>>>> Also any chance you can look at uploading kopete/exp with a fix for the new
>>>> libmediastreamer (patch in #890606) to sid? That would help in two
>>>> transitions.
>>>
>>> I'm not into kopete that much. With 18.04 it is KF5 based, so it might be very 
>>> unstable, why pino descided it to push it to experimental. But we should move 
>>> this discussion to pkg-kde-talk at lists.alioth.debian.org. As it is not related 
>>> to the KDEPIM transistion.
>>
>> Pino, can you share your thoughts?
>>
>> If 18.04 is too buggy and immature to be pushed to sid, then we need a fallback
>> plan to fix the two RC bugs of kopete/sid.
> 
> This is the case.
> 
> Just to be clear: I don't enjoy keeping in experimental versions of
> packages without uploading them to unstable, nor I do that "just
> because".  If I did that, it's because I didn't find the newer versions
> stable/mature/not-a-risk; it applies both to kmymoney, and to kopete as
> well.

Sure. I thought that could have been the reason. I also thought it could have
been that the new version depended on a new version of another component only
available in experimental at the time, or because you initially packaged a
development release and thus pushed it to experimental. Anyway thanks for the
clarification.

> In this case, somebody will need to do fix the version in unstable.
> And considering I'm not available to do uploads for the next 2 weeks,
> the "somebody" will not be me, if you need it soon.

Np. If somebody has the time, then great. Otherwise I can wait a bit with these
transitions.

Cheers,
Emilio