[Pkg-parrot-devel] Parrot 4.6.0, stable backports

[Allison Randal]

On 10/14/2012 07:04 AM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> On 10/10, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've started packaging parrot 4.6.0 to avoid getting too much behind upstream
>> releases. You can find it in the topic/release-4.6.0 branch at [0].
>>
>> The changelog so far looks like this:
>>
>> parrot (4.6.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
>>  .
>>    * Team upload
>>    * New upstream release
>>    * Revert "Add patch to fix ia64 ftbs (hopefully)" since it didn't work
>>    * Add 04_fix_hurd_ftbfs.patch to fix build on hurd-i386.
>>      Thanks to Svante Signell (Closes: #686266)
>>    * Drop 01_use_icu-config_ldflags-libsonly.patch (merged upstream)
>>    * Generate binaries manpages from docs/binaries/ directory
>>    * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes needed)
>>
>> Also, sice 4.3.0 didn't make it to testing (and at this point it won't make it
>> to stable) I was thinking that we might upload 4.6.0 right away (once ready). I
>> was also thinking that we may provide stable backports on par with testing (once
>> wheezy is released) so that stable users would have access to newer parrot, nqp
>> and rakudo releases (given their development rate, even if parrot 4.3.0 & co
>> would have been in stable they would have become obsolete pretty quickly).
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> Anyone?

This looks good.

While you're add it, I suggest adding yourself and Dominique as
uploaders to the package, and drop Patrick and Nuno as uploaders. The
bus factor is too low for comfort on this package at the moment,
especially since I've been so busy this year. If I need to make a DM
upload to make the change official, let me know.

Thanks for keeping on it!
Allison