Control: tags -1 +pending On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 01:55:54AM +0000, Olly Betts wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 04:33:58PM +0100, Benedikt Hallinger wrote: > > It would be nice to recompile the package including the latest > > upstream sources, thank you! > > We usually update to the latest upstream sources only when upstream make > a release (since that's a strong signal that it's "ready"). If we start > pulling arbitrary snapshots from upstream git where we have to worry > about there being changes which might not yet be ready, so in between > we would usually apply a targetted fix for a problem.
A handy illustration of why we do that popped up today: https://mailman.speleo.sk/pipermail/therion/2019-December/008086.html > So we can probably apply the tiny patch from > https://github.com/therion/therion/pull/151 but it would really make > sense for upstream to make an actual release. Upload with this patch applied on its way. Cheers, Olly
