[Pkg-phototools-devel] qtpfsgui 1.9 - unstable vs. experimental (was: qtpfsgui available in debian)

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:14:22AM +0000, Giuseppe Rota wrote:
> On Dec 22, 2007 6:25 PM, Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois at enst-bretagne.fr>
> wrote:
> > On 21/12/2007, Giuseppe Rota wrote:
> > > 1) Qtpfsgui 1.9.0 is out (libjpeg is no more a dependency)
> >
> > I'm working on it, an upload should follow once I've tested the runtime
> > a bit. Thanks for fixing the <pre></pre> stuff in the license file
> > before I even submit it to you (we are using a symlink to the
> > /usr/share/common-license files, rather than shipping an extra license
> > file). :-)
> >
> > A question: do you think we could let 1.8.12 in unstable for a while,
> > and only provide 1.9.0 in experimental (which means that a user can
> > replace its unstable package with an experimental one if he really wants
> > to test that experimental version), or should we just replace 1.8.12
> > with 1.9.0?
> 
> mmhhhh.... 1.8.12 is more a more stable branch than 1.9.x, that's for
> sure... (indeed there is a bug that prevents the user from using
> align_image_stack in 1.9.0). I will leave the decision to you guys, though.

I'd upload it to unstable unless it's unusable for most users. Packages in
experimental usually don't get tested very well - so, probably, most bugs
won't be discovered until the package hits unstable anyway.

Cheers,
Sebastian

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