On dim., 2013-01-20 at 10:40 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > In practice, people do stuff like this every day, but usually when > compiling for a single platform where they can see the results > themselves. I just don't know if there is some more pedantic approach > to managing this type of risk for updates to stable and would appreciate > feedback on that, however...
Well, if a oneliner patch is not applied because of autotools, we really have a problem. And indeed, by only including the oneliner patch, we make sure nothing else changed in Squeeze, since the buildds still run the same compilers version it was used before. > Minimal change would mean exactly what I described: not producing any > new binary packages for ganglia-monitor.deb, gmetad.deb, etc. We would > only release the ganglia-web.deb binary package. We're not interested in binary packages in Debian but you're indeed free to do that kind of QA work upstream. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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