[Pkg-salt-team] Regression in 0.17.0

[Andrii Senkovych]

Hi.

I've done the necessary changes, tested and created a a source package.
Don't know where is a better place for a file upload, so just attached. The
patch fill fail to apply the moment upsream releases its fix.

This is current HEAD of master branch, tag 'debian/0.17.0-2' set
appropriately.

2013/10/8 martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net>

> There is a reason it's called unstable.
>
> Backports only come into play when the package migrates to testing.
> And even that is not stable, i.e. if you run testing or
> stable+backports, you must be aware that you are not using stable
> software.
>
> Conclusion: stuff like this really sucks, but I don't think it's
> Debian's job to prevent upstream's lack of testing. In this case,
> upstream is at fault, I'd say.
>

Concerning this exact issue: it's just so harmful and so easy to revert
that I had the time and will to fix this before the package goes to the
testing branch. Anyway, I use the package myself as well and I'd better not
catch such bug during some production update since this makes all your
infrastructure stop working until you fix this by hand. Imagine if you had
some bunch of servers you need to ssh, fix the config and restart
salt-minion. Even if this was a test suite.

I won't bother myself for every tiny issue I find as well. This just should
go to upstream. Also considering that salt releases so often the
maintainers aiming to just fix the regressions in sid/testing will spend
their time a lot: first you need to release a fixed package, but almost
every next release will discard majority of previously written patches.
This involves additional efforts for maintainer as separate testing (though
I do this every release), sponsor review and some time for the package to
be uploaded to main archive. In most cases the package will be obsolete the
first day it is released.

-- 
Best regards, Andriy Senkovych
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