On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 08:24:27PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I feel it necessary to disclose that while getting 1.24 ready on the > timetable Colin required for the Debian Trixie release freeze (about 8 > March) looked like a tight squeeze a couple of weeks ago, I now have > no confidence that it can be met with anything more than a perfunctory > rc1, and if we needed to roll an rc2 we'd be simply sunk. > > Judging by past experience, an RC needs to percolate for 2-3 weeks, and > after that there's little evidence that any further useful feedback > about it comes in. > > Absolutely everything would have to go right--and my maintainerly powers > to upload things to GNU servers are as yet untested--and since the 27th > something else has gone wrong, this time Savannah #66758. Another > change from last October has proven to have untoward and unintended > consequences. (This time it's a change to the mm package's debugging > interface of all things. With any luck it's just a dumb syntax error.)
Yes, I'm pretty sure it's just that. I attached a suggested patch there (though I didn't do any more sophisticated analysis, such as e.g. viewing the resulting document ...). > This is somewhat frustrating but it's better to find these issues before > making an RC, let alone a final release. Better now than later. Thanks > go to Dave and Deri for giving the master branch thrashings that exposed > issues that existing automated tests did not. > > So while I'll continue to work toward a release candidate and final > release as soon as is feasible, I think that's going to be on the other > side of the Debian toolchain/central infrastructure freeze deadline that > Colin asked me to meet if I wanted to see 1.24 in Trixie. > > It seems that a curse afflicts the synchronization of the Debian and > groff release schedules. (Maybe the curse bears my name.) Thanks for the update. If it's in time, I'll do what I can. Otherwise, I hope 1.24 can be the start of a practice of doing smaller and more frequent groff releases, with which this sort of thing would be much less of a problem. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
