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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Salvatore Bonaccorso (2020-06-12 20:56:01)
> 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).
> 
> Sorry I think there was a missunderstanding here, I by no means 
> implied bad faith or that at the time of the buster release it was 
> known. I probably wrote the above too short to make it clear. Let me 
> expand a bit.
> 
> While I was filling bug for the new CVEs reported for janus I stumpled 
> over #946412 and that made me think to reply there and raise the 
> question on the removal of janus from buster. What I actually wanted 
> to ask with the above is "should janus be removed from buster as 
> ideally it would not have been released with it" but not implying the 
> situation was already clear at that time.
> 
> Sorry if that all was not clear in my wording.
> 
> Thanks for filling the removal, taken note of #962694.

Thanks for clarifying.  All makes sense.

I realize that our conversation could've been even smoother if I had 
just _silently_ assumed good faith, instead of nitpicking.  Sorry for 
that, I've learned from this.


 - Jonas

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