On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > Santiago, can you revert this commit in the debian package of diffutils > > at least for now? Just revert the patch linked above. > > Done for now.
Thanks. > > BTW, the change above dates back to 2002 according to git but it was first > > part of diffutils 2.8.4 (2004?) and we just switched from 2.8.1 to 2.9 in > > Debian sid (whoa, what happened Santiago?). > > Those were beta releases only distributed in alpha.gnu.org. > > As it is Debian policy, we only package stable things for unstable, > and diffutils 2.9 is the first stable relase since 2.8.1, as you can > see in the FTP site: > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/ Ok, that clears it up. So it's perfectly ok for us to ask upstream to revert this commit since it has not yet been in wide use and it's likely that other projects will be affected by this user-visible change. > If you ask about the changelog: Some of those beta releases were > packaged for Debian experimental, but my changelog policy for > unstable is to document only what was uploaded for unstable. > The drawback for this is that I can't actually close some bugs > until they are actually fixed in unstable, but I prefer it that way. Huh? You can always close bugs twice whether or not you decide to merge the changelog entries. Bug are closed in specific versions and you can close multiple times when you have separate branches. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100216113503.gd31...@rivendell
