Bug#470154: Bug#531556: upgrade problem with the proposed libarchive-tar-perl Etch update

[Luk Claes]

Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:19:38AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
>  
>> Oldstable release managers: will you accept a libarchive-tar-perl
>> 1.38-3~etch2 upload with the diversions added, or can you suggest
>> another fix?  What's the schedule for the Etch r9 release?

Introducing diversions in a point release is a no go IMHO.

As the Conflicts entry did not leave room for any update, that's the bug
that should be fixed IMHO.

> Ping? I see 1.38-3~etch1 is still ACCEPTED in oldstable-proposed-updates,
> but it would be very unfortunate to have an Etch point release with that.
> 
> I understand the release may not be very soon, but I'm worried
> this gets forgotten. Maybe adding a note to the TODO list on top of
>  http://release.debian.org/proposed-updates/oldstable.html 
> would suffice to make sure this gets resolved before the release?

It's mentioned in the TODO.

Cheers

Luk