Bug#592300: future unblock: xz-utils/5.0.0

2010-09-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Julien Cristau wrote: > What's up with this? Do we still need more updates in squeeze? I would like to upload version 4.999.9beta+20100927-1 to unstable. Changes since 20100810 (testing): * New snapshot, taken from upstream commit cec0ddc. - liblzma: The meaning of --extreme has been twea

Bug#592300: future unblock: xz-utils/5.0.0

2010-09-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 22:20:19 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> XZ Utils 5.0.0 is likely to be released some time in the next few >> weeks. [...] > What's up with this? Do we still need more updates in squeeze? Yes. Something close to what I would like to see in squeez

Bug#592300: future unblock: xz-utils/5.0.0

2010-09-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 22:20:19 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > XZ Utils 5.0.0 is likely to be released some time in the next few > weeks. As the upstream maintainer explains: > > | In case of XZ Utils, a stable release is a promise about API, ABI, and > | command line syntax compatibility long

Bug#592300: future unblock: xz-utils/5.0.0

2010-08-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > My eyes saw: > >> * The soname of liblzma (upstream, at least) will be liblzma.so.5. > > and my disk said "liblzma.so.2". They started to fight each other and I had > to answer quickly. Quite understandable. This must be the least pleasant part of working on the release tea

Bug#592300: future unblock: xz-utils/5.0.0

2010-08-08 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 0, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Please reread my message. I would like not to bump the soname, since > there is nothing to bump soname for. > Right. I'll reread the patches then. My eyes saw: > * The soname of liblzma (upstream, at least) will be liblzma.so.5. and my disk said "liblzma.so.

Bug#592300: future unblock: xz-utils/5.0.0

2010-08-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
user release.debian@packages.debian.org usertags 592300 freeze-exception thanks Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > This is not a freeze-exception for your package only but rather a request > to start a new transition. Sorry about my last reply; I am a little sensitive about this because of http://bugs.de

Bug#592300: future unblock: xz-utils/5.0.0

2010-08-08 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 0, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > This is not a freeze-exception for your package only but rather a request > to start a new transition. Let me recall that there was a transition > freeze announced a while ago. Hum... actually, we are even frozen, which means "no new transitions". It really depends

Bug#592300: future unblock: xz-utils/5.0.0

2010-08-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > This is not a freeze-exception for your package only but rather a request > to start a new transition. Let me recall that there was a transition > freeze announced a while ago. Thus, it's very unlikely that we accept this > transition for Squeeze. Please reread my message.

Bug#592300: future unblock: xz-utils/5.0.0

2010-08-08 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
user release.debian@packages.debian.org usertags 592300 transition thanks On 0, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: wishlist > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: freeze-exception > This is not a freeze-exception for your package only but r

Bug#592300: future unblock: xz-utils/5.0.0

2010-08-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: release.debian.org Severity: wishlist User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: freeze-exception The following is just a heads up; I have not prepared the uploads yet. XZ Utils 5.0.0 is likely to be released some time in the next few weeks. As the upstream maintainer explai