[Pkg-puppet-devel] Plans for Squeeze?

[micah anderson]

On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:02:42 +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm at debian.org> wrote:

Nice work on the message! I took it and re-worded it a little bit, I
felt that it was important to note how we got into this situation so I
added that too:

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| We wish to upgrade puppet from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 in squeeze.  The reason
| for this is that 2.6.0 contains too many upstream bugs.
| 
| The release of puppet 2.6.0 arrived (July 20th) right before the Debian
| freeze (August 6th). As a result 2.6.0 transitioned into Squeeze and
| then we froze. This was an unfortunate situation as the 2.6.0 version of
| the software turned out to be significantly buggy and unsuitable for
| release. Puppet 2.6.1 primarily is a bug fix release to fix a number of
| usability issues[0].
| 
| We attempted to go through a process of cherry-picking a number of
| commits from 2.6.1 to 2.6.0 to fix these important bugs, but there are
| still a large number of unfixed issues in the debian package. Continuing
| to do this would result in a Debian version of puppet that differs from
| both 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 which would be difficult to support in the long
| run.
| 
| We also did some packaging restructuring for 2.6.1, but have decided
| that in the interests of fixing only the necessary bits for release, we
| have reverted the packaging restructuring for the 2.6.1 version that we
| would like to enter into Squeeze.
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