[request-tracker-maintainers] status of packaging

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 06:30:21PM +0100, Florian Richter wrote:
> how is the status of packaging the current upstream version of request
> tracker. Are there any specific difficulties?
> 
> The current version in debian is 4.0.7, upstream is 4.0.10. The release
> notes of version 4.0.8 [1] even mention some security issues.

The reason Debian unstable is currently based on 4.0.7 is that we are
frozen in preparation for the release of wheezy, and packaging new
versions necessarily takes a back seat. The current package, 4.0.7-4,
includes the security fixes from 4.0.7; have a look at the changelog[1].

If you think there are updates which should be targetted at wheezy,
and qualify as important bugs, please file them in the BTS; there is
still a chance to fix things in wheezy (please include pointers to
git commits if possible). Separately, if you have a particular interest in
seeing later versions in Debian experimental, please file a wishlist bug
for that. By default I will probably end up updating the Debian packages
shortly after the wheezy release but if there is interest in having
packages available in experimental sooner I may well be able to do that.

Dominic.

[1] <http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/r/request-tracker4/current/changelog>

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