Thomas Arendsen Hein a écrit : > * Aron Griffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070307 18:08]: >> The mercurial-0.9.1 version in etch is not compatible with the on-disk >> format of mercurial-0.9.3 in sid. This is a pain for anybody in >> a mixed environment, particularly since other distros have already >> moved forward to 0.9.3. Since there are no outstanding bugs against >> 0.9.3 in dbts, it seems reasonable to move etch forward to 0.9.3 >> before release. > > I second this. > > As a member of Mercurial crew I can say that the 0.9.3 version had > much better QA than 0.9.1 due to the introduction of a stable branch > for its release. > > As a Debian user since potato I prefer fixed bugs over new features > and can say that the 0.9.3 package has more bugs fixed than it has > new features :)
I know that. I already proposed to the release team to include mercurial 0.9.3. They refused :-( See http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2007/01/msg00107.html and next. With this bug report, I can try again. Do you have an explicit list of bugs closed by the 0.9.3 release ? > There have been 71 patches in the stable branch since the release of > 0.9.3 about three months ago, most of them only fix compatibility > issues on systems other than Linux, fix documentation or similar > cosmetic issues, or add better error handling for network > connections. But very few of these patches might be worth being > included, like one change fixing a merging edge case and another > fixing the removal of a backup file. Would a 0.9.4 release with not > a single added feature above 0.9.3 have a chance to be included in > etch? I'm not sure at all, but we can try. In this case, do the 0.9.4 release as soon as you can so that I can upload the package to unstable (at least 10 days before it will be include in etch if it is...). And here again, if you can explicitely write a list of bug fix, this will be easier to ask the release team. In any case, I will maintain a backport of the current version of mercurial for the debian stable release on the backports.org site. This site only accept testing packages rebuilt for stable. So it is still mercurial 0.9.1. But mercurial 0.9.3 for sarge is already available on my personnal repository : deb http://people.debian.org/~vdanjean/ stable main Best regards, Vincent PS: I will probably be offline from today until monday...
