Bug#508772: Please allow base-files 5 in lenny

2008-12-20 Thread Loïc Minier
FWIW, it also broke local scripts on my hosts: I switch between build envs depending on lsb-release output. Until know it would look at sources.list to gather what I was running (implementation of which was painfully slow, but that's another matter); now it reports lenny when I run unstable/s

Bug#508772: Please allow base-files 5 in lenny

2008-12-15 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Santiago Vila wrote: > And then I could argue that /etc/debian_version is almost always wrong > in testing and unstable (because of it saying "testing/unstable") and > that the time between now and the release of lenny does not deserve an > exception. No, it's correct. It says testing/unstabl

Bug#508772: Please allow base-files 5 in lenny

2008-12-15 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Rene Engelhard wrote: > b) I can still prepare it without uploading it to bpo, no? Yes, of course you can *prepare* it, but IMHO you should not ask everybody to treat lenny as if it were already released as stable, when it's not, or submit bugs of severity "important" against

Bug#508772: Please allow base-files 5 in lenny

2008-12-15 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Santiago Vila wrote: > > > BTW: Should I worry about Bug#508772? This is the very first time in > > > 10 years that someone seems unconvenienced by seeing a version number > > > like 5.0 in unstable for a few weeks. Are there really packages which > > > break because o

Bug#508772: Please allow base-files 5 in lenny

2008-12-15 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > Santiago Vila wrote: > > BTW: Should I worry about Bug#508772? This is the very first time in > > 10 years that someone seems unconvenienced by seeing a version number > > like 5.0 in unstable for a few weeks. Are there really packages which >

Bug#508772: Please allow base-files 5 in lenny

2008-12-15 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Santiago Vila wrote: > BTW: Should I worry about Bug#508772? This is the very first time in > 10 years that someone seems unconvenienced by seeing a version number > like 5.0 in unstable for a few weeks. Are there really packages which > break because of this? If not, I feel that the BTS is be