Hi, You got it all wrong.
I wrote: > So, I take it we need to maintain a branch off the upstream stable > branch, that will not include most user-related bugfixes (but include > the piupart-related nitpicks ;))? Short of an answer from you, that's exactly what happened, and Jessie has a sub-par version of FusionForge (btw, not "fontforge"). But I see that PostgreSQL got frozen as a beta, and was allowed to follow its stable branch during the freeze, so next time I'm going to push betas in testing for all my packages ;) - Sylvain On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 03:51:06AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the release.debian.org package: > > #771944: Following FusionForge 5.3 stable branch > > It has been closed by Michael Gilbert <mgilb...@debian.org>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Michael Gilbert > <mgilb...@debian.org> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 771944: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771944 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 22:46:19 -0500 > From: Michael Gilbert <mgilb...@debian.org> > To: 771944-cl...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Re: Bug#771944: Following FusionForge 5.3 stable branch > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:12 AM: > > I already read the policy, and since it sounds sensible to follow the > > upstream Stable branch for the debian Stable release, I'm asking. > > It looks like your fontforge updates were accepted into testing. > > Best wishes, > Mike > Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 18:52:26 +0100 > From: b...@debian.org > To: sub...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: lola...@debian.org > Subject: Following FusionForge 5.3 stable branch > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > > Package: release.debian.org > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > We're (upstream-ly) maintaining a stable branch for FusionForge, > called "5.3", which the Debian package currently follows. > (incidentally Lolando and I are both upstream and debian devs) > > We're currently pushing only bugfixes to this branch (some of them > qualify as "RC", some don't), because it's deployed at several large > client installs already and we want to make sure we don't break > anything. > > It makes sense that users benefit from the quality of this branch, so > we'd like to know to what extent following this branch is compatible > with the Freeze. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
