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

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On 10/14, Allison Randal wrote:
> 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.

Done. I've now merged the topic/release-4.6.0 branch into master and I'll
prepare an upload soonish.

> If I need to make a DM upload to make the change official, let me know.

Nope, it's not needed. Btw, the DM upload permission mechanism recently changed
[0]. Since I can't find you or parrot in [1] I guess yours hasn't been update
yet. I'll gladly do it if needed.

Cheers

[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00008.html
[1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/dm.txt

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