On Sun, 2016-09-04 at 19:19 +0100, Christopher Hoskin wrote: [...] > > Given the fact that the package has no reverse-dependencies and before > > your NMU in unstable had not been updated for two years, I wonder > > whether removal might have been a better option. > > That's a fair point - but presumably a matter for the PAPT rather than me?
If you're not the maintainer, yeah. It was a pondering. > > I assume your rationale for suggesting a release via stable-updates, > > rather than simply waiting for the next point release (which will be in > > just under two weeks time) is the potential for data loss. > > This may be me misunderstanding the roles of stable-updates and point > releases. > The next point release sounds fine, particularly given that #817231 had > already > been open for some time. All updates for stable are uploaded to proposed-updates, which is then merged into stable at a point release. The Stable Release Managers may optionally decide to also release some of those updates via stable-updates before the point release, in order to make them available to users more quickly. There's some more explanation at https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/03/msg00010.html , which should probably be cleaned up and published somewhere. (Other than in the footer of each mail to debian-stable-announce.) > I've rebuilt the diff with version 0.16-1+deb8u1 as I started from the Jessie > source package. Hopefully I have got it right this time? That looks fine, thanks. Regards, Adam
