On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 06:18:55PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 17:00:36 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2016-06-26 at 15:10 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > > I've prepared an update for libbusiness-creditcard-perl in
> > > jessie{,-updates} which fixes #814479 for stable users. The issue at
> > > hand is that the credit card ranges of several providers need to be
> > > updated.
> > That bug report says "[t]he most important change in this release is
> > recognition of new MasterCard ranges which will be issued starting in
> > October 2016". Given that (I'd really hope that) the next point release
> > will be well before October, are any of the other changes sufficiently
> > urgent to need a -updates release?
19 digit Visa cards are being issued already, but they do not appear to be
in widespread use yet.
None of the other changes are sufficiently urgent.
I do have concerns that we are "really hoping" a point release will be
in a specific timeframe. I'm not saying that it won't be or anything
bad about the release folks - I'm just concerned about _relying_ on such
a thing.
Are we tracking outstanding issues and their deadlines somewhere, and
have that list and our procedures/workflow documented such that we will
know to add the necessary packages -updates when point releases are
delayed? If not, I think that relying on an point update in a specific
future timeframe is a bad idea. It sets us up to fail.
All that said, I don't really have time or resources to push this
forward any more (I find this exhausting compared to writing code - I've
spent longer discusssing this than making the actual changes to the CPAN
module). So just go ahead and do whatever you think is best.
--
Ivan Kohler
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Debian GNU/Linux developer | CPAN author | cat person | ski addict
