On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 17:37:05 +0200 Amr Ibrahim <amribrahim1...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I had the impression that the Release team does not mind a >bug-only-fix release update, as Lollypop is a leaf package, and the >1.4.14+ versions has only small bug fixes by looking at their git >commits. > > Please do not top post, and trim the message you are replying to. From https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze-policy.html : >Soft Freeze > >Starting 2021-02-12, only small, targeted fixes are appropriate for >bullseye. We want maintainers to focus on small, targeted fixes. This >is mainly at the maintainers discretion, there will be no hard rule >that will be enforced. And further down on the same page: >Targeted fixes >A targeted fix is one with only the minimum necessary changes to >resolve a bug. The freeze process is designed to make as few changes >as possible to the forthcoming release. Uploading unrelated changes is >likely to result in a request for you to revert them if you want an >unblock. > >In most cases, it's not appropriate to upload a new upstream release >at this point. New upstream release usually contain unrelated changes, >which might be inappropriate or make review much more difficult. >Uploading a new upstream release is only appropriate when the >resulting debdiff doesn't contain changes that wouldn't be in the >debdiff of a targeted change. When in doubt, ask for pre-approval >before uploading a new upstream release. To me it seems like a targeted fix is one that fixes a specific bug in unstable, and I don't think that "Please update to a newer upstream version" is a really valid candidate as a bug intended for such a fix. And since we have no other bugs than that, I don't see what a targeted fix should do. If there are actual problems with the package, PLEASE report bugs for them, with a valid severity level. If you think otherwise, feel free to contact the release team with a new package fixing bugs and a debdiff and try to convince them. At this point, I'd say that you are out of luck. (And that is even at the time when the bug was reported). And yes, I know I might have been able to squeeze in some later releases of Lollypop into bullseye, but I didn't have the resources to do packaging of Lollypop at that time. /Andreas Rönnquist gus...@debian.org
