[DRE-maint] Unblock or t-p-u upload for libxml-ruby

[Michael Schutte]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:29:10AM -0300, Filipe Lautert wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Michael Schutte wrote:
>> The revision of libxml-ruby currently in unstable fixes an important
>> bug.  The boring changelog:
>>
>> | libxml-ruby (0.8.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
>> |
>> |   * New upstream version (closes: #485738).
>>
>> The changes are big, but this version has been in the archive for a
>> month and now new bugs have been filed since then.
>
> You mean *NO* new bugs have been filed, right? Cause the package is clean 
> for a month now :)

D’oh…  Of course that’s what I meant.

>> Still, because I assume that you do not want to let new upstream
>> releases in at this point, I attach the debdiff for a possible t-p-u
>> upload backporting the required fix.
>
> Well, it has been a month, and I'd not like to starting patching old 
> releases of libxml before a release. As it has been in sid for a month now 
> and there are no new bugs in it, maybe release team could allow this 
> package to go to testing.

Seconded.

> I was going to ask this next week together with other packages, but now 
> that you raised the question...
>
> ***release team***, please unblock package libxml-ruby version 0.8.3-1 .
>
> Please mates, don't make me start to have lots of diff in my package for 
> the whole lenny cicle, ok? :)

My apologies, I didn’t mean to stab you in the back.

-- 
Michael Schutte <michi at uiae.at>
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