Graham Inggs <gin...@debian.org> writes: > If this was an upload of 1.9.15-2 with only that change, altos would > already have been unblocked.
Right, I understand. However, there would be no value to me or to the users altos to create such a version, it would "only" resolve the Debian file overlap packaging bug which they likely just don't care about. That's why I didn't take that path. > You didn't attach a debdiff, but I generated one in order to review > the changes between 1.9.15-1 in testing and 1.9.16-2 in unstable. The reason I didn't generate it was exactly what you discovered, which is that there's a lot of "noise" in the diff that is unrelated to the code that runs on Linux and/or is actually relevant to the Debian package. > As far as I could see, the only change according to the upstream > release notes was: > * Add TeleGPS v3.0 support > > However, the debdiff showed a lot more, including the addition of > several fonts. The font stuff is all related to working on firmware support for a graphic LCD display we need to support in a future ground station hardware product. Those changes have no impact at all on the code that's executable on a Linux system. Even the addition of support for TeleGPS v3.0 is largely creation of a new firmware object that's not executed on Debian, plus some very minor changes to the Java ground station software to enable support for it, all of which is very low risk. Specifically, because the ground station code is in Java, that change has already been massively tested by our users on other platforms since the 1.9.16 change giving me extremely high confidence there's no risk to including those changes here. > As upstream, please comment on risks of the other changes between > 1.9.15 and 1.9.16. As I stated in the original bug filing, I believe the risk of the other changes is negligible. A large number of customers of Altus Metrum hardware products have been running 1.9.16 for a while now on platforms including Windows, MacOS, Android, and other Linux distributions with .. literally .. no new bugs reported. We will of course support whatever decision you choose to make, but I am quite serious about believing 1.9.16-2 is the best choice of altos version for inclusion in testing and therefore in the upcoming stable release. Thanks for your time on this, and best regards, Bdale
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