[Pkg-pascal-devel] Lazarus 2.0.2

[Abou Al Montacir]

On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 13:19 +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Hi Abou, Paul
> 
> On 2019/05/21 20:57, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > On 21-05-2019 17:22, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > > BTW: I discovered a quite annoying bug in Lazarus 2.0.0 that is fixed in
> > > 2.0.2. I would really push for having 2.0.2 in Buster or at least its
> > > updates. After all this is bug fixes only release. I'll see what I can do.
> > 
> > You can try to cherry pick the bug fix, but 2.0.2 will not be accepted
> > in buster if you ask me. We don't do new upstream releases anymore
> > except if *all* the changes are for important or serious bugs (in the
> > definition of Debian bugs).
> 
> I think the users of our packages should be our priority.
> 
> I support pushing 2.0.2 for Buster.  For what it's worth, I've already 
> sync'd it into Ubuntu and autopkgtests pass there.

I fully support this especially that we are loosing users who are switching to
upstream deb packages due to our long release cycle.

But it may be very hard to convince the release team of that.
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
Hi Graham,
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