Hi, On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 12:04:49AM +1100, Russell Sim wrote: > > Also, please note that most of the changes in the latest uploads probably > > don't comply with the freeze policy. If you think they do, you need to file > > an > > unblock request explaining why (including a debdiff). > > > > https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html > > > > I guess #761170 and #761539 should be unmerged, as they are really different > > issues. Bug #761170 should be downgraded back to important. Adding support > > for > > new architectures isn't something that is allowed during the freeze. The > > only > > real issue for the version in testing is #761539, which is about > > clone::nonetwork::local_absolute_path, which can be fixed by setting the > > tmp dir. > > Setting TMP_DIR will fix kfreebsd builds too. This can't be avoided > unless we explicitly fail when building on those architectures.
The fact that a fix for an issue that's present on i386 also fixes the build on other architectures (even when there never was a build before), doesn't mean that the fix is unsuitable for jessie. I meant that changes that are only needed to make the package build on architectures where it didn't before are usually not accepted during the freeze. You shouldn't try to make the build fail on other architectures if the fix makes them work there. Also, the result on kfreebsd doesn't really matter anymore as far as the release is concerned, as kfreebsd won't be part of the jessie release. > I'm happy to split the this into 2 bugs and 2 uploads. One revision to > fix the TMP_DIR bug that is messing with the i386 build. And a new > version that I'll get uploaded once we unfreeze. > > So is the best course of action: > - Split bugs > - Create new revision that only fixes the failing test on i386, it will > also force and kfreebsd build to fail. So you should indeed create 2 uploads, one fixing the tmpdir issue (without breaking other builds on purpose), based on version 0.21.1-1, and the other one with other fixes (possibly also the new upstream version). As there is already a newer upstream version in unstable, and the change to the first version (destined for jessie) is very small, you should file a pre-approval unblock request to get permission to upload the fix to testing-proposed-updates. The upload should only happen once it's approved (I'm happy to sponsor the upload if that's necessary). In the future, you really should avoid doing uploads of new upstream versions to unstable during the freeze (they can go to experimental if you want). Cheers, Ivo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
