Willi Mann: > Hi, > > Am 2016-01-07 um 00:46 schrieb Chris Knadle: >> Willi Mann: >>> I can certainly do some testing, but I also don't think it is realistic >>> to runtime test all reverse dependencies ourselves. >> >> Yeah for instance remmina (remote desktop client for Gnome) -- I don't run >> Gnome and don't want to, and testing that would presumably require running 2 >> instances of Gnome and then using remmina between them. And as Gnome >> requires 3D to work (last I looked) that limits virtualizing instances of >> it. Bleh. >> >> But I also understand the concern -- popcon shows there are 36000 users of >> libssh, so it's important not to break it. > > We are not pushing it to stable immediately, not even testing. We ensure > that the upload works as far as we can reasonably test, such that we > know we won't run into a complete disaster. However, there is always the > possibility that we find some bugs afterwards. We just need to be > prepared to fix them.
Right... got it. >>> I think it would be a good first step to bring a new version to git and >>> then upload it to experimental. Does anybody already have sources of >>> 0.7.2 that could be pushed to git and get uploaded? >> >> I think have a package that could be imported into a (local) git repo after >> some minor modifications: a debian version # change to remove the +0cdu0 > > Could you make the git repo somewhere available? git clone git://git.coredump.us/debian/libssh.git I use git-buildpackage and pristine-tar, and the clone will contain all that plus default to the '0.7.2' branch that contains all the commits I've done on the package. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us
