On 09/30/2013 06:48 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> (2013-06-26): >> Dear release team, >> >> Wheezy has been released with a version of tgt which doesn't have an init >> script. I fixed the version in Sid on the 2013-05-21 (adding the missing >> init.d script). >> >> Now, I would like to upload a fix for Wheezy. The debdiff between >> 1:1.0.17-1 and 1:1.0.17-1.1 is attached. >> >> Would you allow me to upload the fixed tgt package into s-p-u? > > if I get the picture right, that package reached the archive on 2011-06-21 > but no bug was reported about that missing init script, and that was only > implemented on 2013-05-21. It doesn't appear to have been a huge lack, so > I don't think it's worse a stable upload. Waiting a bit to see if other > team members disagree. > > Mraw, > KiBi.
Hi, Thanks for reviewing this PU bug. I'm very surprised that dates of bug reports come into consideration here. I don't see why they should. In fact, that's one more reason why we should speed up things: it has taken really too long to fix already. A missing init script is very annoying for our users. So I do think it's worse it. I personally would not use the Stable package if it doesn't include a correct init script, and it seems I'm not alone thinking this way. I had to point some TGT users to my corrected package in a private Debian repository. I would like to avoid doing this in the future: explaining that Debian can't fix such an issue within 9 months after the release doesn't feel great. Also, I don't see how adding an init script makes it a disruptive or dangerous patch. It has been successfully tested by many already, including Julien Cristau who is the original author of it (IIRC, I just added a few things in the script, but that's too long ago, so I wouldn't be able to tell what I added). I would find it very disappointing if Debian couldn't address this kind of issue in an existing package in the stable distribution, only because the release team think "it's not worse a stable upload". I already find it frustrating that it has taken 3 months to get an answer to this pu bug (even though I understand everyone is busy...). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
