diffoscope 77 in stretch or not?

[Holger Levsen]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 09:38:51AM +1300, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > what did you plan on to do with diffoscope in regard to Debian's
> > stretch when you decided to work on it
> I didn't decide anything at all; I was enjoying the coding, adding
> features, tests, squashing bugs...
 
you decided to put this work into the master branch though and to upload this
to unstable, while you certainly were aware of the freeze (which is always
the reasons for tensions btw) and the surrounding policies.

Me too would have appreciated and expected some discussion about this, eg 
a simple mail to the list "what shall we do, I think we should push $this
into unstable and stretch".

> (However, whatever version ends up in stretch will surely become pretty
> outdated that we will be sending people to Backports within a few
> months anyway, so I'm not overly concerned about this.)

well, whatever we put in stretch now has been tested on 25k packages in
Debian plus a bunch of other projects, so, yeah, whatever, it might become
slightly outdated in a while, yet diffoscope today is quite great and deserves
proper care.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger
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