[request-tracker-maintainers] 4.2?

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 04:53:11PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 01:04:45AM +0100, Kai Storbeck wrote:
> > On 02/01/14 21:08, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> > > No, but we might want users to have the option of 4.0 backports for
> > > a while longer. But maybe I'm just trying to keep everyone happy and
> > > doomed to failure :)
> > 
> > From a sysadmins perspective I am interested in a stable package that
> > gets security updates, and no big new features (like changing themes). I
> > don't care wether that comes from backports or from a debian release.
> > 
> > Having a 4.0 backports option would block any 4.2 backports version,
> > wouldn't it?
> 
> As far as the official debian-backports suite goes, yes (or vice versa).
> Upgrading request-tracker4 in unstable to 4.2 pretty much also means that
> we can't provide any extra updates of 4.0 to the backports archive.
> 
> > Although I don't consider 4.2 that much of an upgrade, and my preference
> > does go out to a single package.
> 
> Yeah, I think I'm possibly over-thinking things here; it seems that 4.2
> is a smaller step than most of the others.

Hi,

Just a quick note to say that the 4.2 package is taking shape at

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-request-tracker/request-tracker4.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dom/experimental

My TODO currently looks like:

- run build with unit tests (just kicked that off)
- install test
- standards-version review
- extra license file lintian warnings
- embedded javascript - anything more we can practically do?

Hoping to upload this to experimental in the next day or few.

Cheers,
Dominic.