On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 07:28:14PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On Jul 24, 2018, at 7:02 PM, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote:
> > I haven't reviewed the proposed NMU diff in depth, because I stopped the > > moment I saw that it was proposing to introduce new binary packages, a > > change for which there was no prior bug report in the BTS. I am > > disappointed that the prospective sponsors here were not similarly given > > pause. > To be fair, Steve, you’ve been silent for quite a long time and freetype > is too important as a package to let it just hang there. Then adopt it, don't pretend that a bucket-of-parts NMU is an appropriate way to handle this. > And, I honestly don’t think the lack of CI should keep us from updating > this package forever. It’s being updated in other distributions, so I > think Debian can do so as well. As long as you are the one dealing with whatever the regression of the day is across the distro as a result of the new upstream version, that's fine with me. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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