[Python-modules-team] Bug#775892: unblock (pre-approval): python-django/1.7.3-1

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi Mehdi,

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> Le 2015-02-04 09:01, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
> >it's been two weeks that I have opened this pre-approval request
> >and I got almost no feedback from the release team (except Neil saying
> >that he has no answer for me on IRC).
> 
> Neil or Niels? 

Sorry, I meant Niels.

> I can understand why the former doesn't have any
> answer for you on this subject. The latter might not have make his
> mind yet on this because it is not an easy subject.

Sure.

> >If I don't hear back from you in the next two days, I will proceed
> >with what I believe to be best, which is:
> 
> Do you think such a statement helps you in any way?

Well, it was not meant to help me, but to help Debian. If the arguments I
have put forth were not enough to convince anyone of the release team in a
reasonable timeframe, then I hoped that some real-life testing in unstable
would be a supplementary proof that it was the safe thing to do.

> The non-trivial part is to try to draw a line to know what should be
> allowed to be updated using new upstream releases, and what doesn't.
> An effort has been made into this direction (See packages like linux,
> iceweasel, postgresql, etc...) but I think that there is still room
> for improvement there.

Certainly, that's why I was arguing that we could/should handle
python-django like the cases that you mention.

And if you don't agree, then I would be interested to know what could
bring you the required confidence so that we can gain that status
(maybe adding autopkgtests to reverse dependencies and running
those tests, or stuff like that).

> Anyway. Based on my blabla about security stuff, I've decided to
> unblock this package so that it migrates to Jessie. Note that this
> doesn't mean that we will accept (let's say) 1.7.5 next time.

Thanks!
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