Bug#946412: janus-gateway: upstream does not support stable releases

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Moritz Muehlenhoff (2020-06-12 10:20:31)
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 08:53:35AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Salvatore Bonaccorso (2020-06-11 22:54:43)
> > > On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 02:09:10PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > > Upstream releases are to be considered draft snapshots,
> > > > and this package is therefore unsuitable for inclusion
> > > > in long-term distributions like Debian stable.
> > > > 
> > > > This bug should be bumped to release-critical state
> > > > close to or after entering freeze -
> > > > but not before so as to ease use for users tracking testing
> > > > including derivatives based on Debian testing.
> > > 
> > > Reading the above, so janus should not have been in buster, right?
> > 
> > While in good faith, I am not sure what you are implying with the 
> > above: In an ideal World (where crystal balls or time machines 
> > exist), yes.
> > 
> > Both filing this bugreport and the upstream statement triggering it 
> > occured _after_ the release of Buster, indicating lack of knowledge 
> > on the matter at the time of release of Buster (or, in bad faith, 
> > that it was known but kept secret - sure you cannot mean that).
> 
> Don't read things into this which don't exist :-)
> 
> The only question here was whether janus should continue to be in stable
> or not, noone is accusing you of anything.

Thanks for confirmation :-)


> > Sorry, I am not familiar with the procedures to do that, and 
> > appreciate your suggestion: Do I simply file a bugreport against 
> > ftp.debian.org as with removals from unstable/experimental, or which 
> > different runes should I throw?
> 
> For this simply do "reportbug release.debian.org" and pick the "rm" 
> option. The removal (if agreeds by stable release managers), then 
> happens by the next point release.

Yes, I figured that out (and tried communicate that shortly after I 
posted the above - sorry if that update didn't reach you), and should 
now have initiated the procedure with bug#962694.


Thanks,

 - Jonas

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