Accepted faad2 2.7-5 (source amd64)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:48:52AM +0100, Alessio Treglia wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
>> Am 20.11.2010 12:37, schrieb Alessio Treglia:
>>>
>>> Oh god, I made a mistake.
>>> I get a lot of confusion while trying to re-upload the package, maybe
>>> I've switched to the wrong git branch.
>>
>> You've messed up the changelog, IMHO it's not that bad and can be fixed in
>> the next upload. ;)
>
>Yes, it is: I ap
>
>> What's a bit worse is that the new package revision contains the rather
>> intrusive bpa-stdin patch. I fear this will make it harder to convince the
>> RT to include this revision of the faad2 package in queeze. We should have
>> reverted it beforehand and only upload with the two minor fixes (my path_max
>> patch and your pointer_size one).
>>
>> I'd suggest to upload another package 2.7-6 with the following changes:
>>
>> * Fix debian/changelog for 2.7-5
>> * Unapply bpa-stdin.patch (but maybe keep it in the package)
>>
>> And then request a freeze exception with the debdiff between 2.7-4 and
>> 2.7-6.
>
>As alternative, we could upload a 2.7-4+squeeze1 release to t-p-u,
>what do you think?

This is bad: t-p-u does not get the same exposure and automated testing 
time before sliding into testing.  This means a higher burden on the 
Release team for such uploads, and likely less interest in acceptance 
due to the weaker testing process!


  - Jonas

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