David, On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:26:20AM -0500, David A. Harding wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 05:06:50PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > After discussing on IRC with Joey and other ion users, it seems that there > > isn't really much demand for ion3 in a stable release after all; > I run ion3 on Sarge and would like to upgrade to a more recent release > (development snapshot or not) when Etch is released. Tuomo, the author > of IonWM and the original bugreport, is probably correct in his assement > of the flaws of megafreeze distributions[1] (like Debian), but I'm happy > with Debian's implimentation of such, and I prefer that you not break > Debian's release model by not distributing ion3 in Etch. > [1] http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/b/archives/2007/03/03/T19_15_26/ > If ion3 passes the technical, legal, and other tests Debian policy > requires for the benefit of it's users, ion3 should be, I belive, in > Etch. I'm upset you're removing it because you talked to a very small > subset of the Debian and IonWM using communities, and they didn't > ``demand'' it in Etch or future stable releases. I have pointed out one technical test that the package fails: it does not provide a smooth upgrade path from sarge to etch for users. Another test is that we must be able to support the package for security and other bugs of release-critical severity. Well, the package has been orphaned, upstream doesn't want to support it, and all the developers I've spoken with agree that there's no interest in maintaining it for stable, so the support this package would have is dubious at best. So there is a real doubt that the package meets Debian's standards of quality for a stable release. Without a maintainer to vouch for it, I'm not going to disagree here. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
