Hi Thomas, On 3 November 2016 at 20:25, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote:
> On 11/03/2016 12:08 PM, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > > Package: python-testtools > > Version: 1.8.0-4 > > Severity: normal > > > > The 1.8.0 release is over a year old. In the meantime several bug > > fixes and improvements have landed upstream and are available in > > the 2.2.0 release, so we should upgrade the Debian package. > > > > If you wish, I volunteer for co-maintainership or even simply an > > ad-hoc NMU. > > I'm not sure if it is such a good idea to upgrade testtools just before > the freeze of Stretch. Maybe we'd better upload it to Experimental? > As mentioned, the 2.2.0 release is definitely an improvement over the 1.8.0, with bug fixes even. For a stable release like Stretch, I would rather prefer to see 2.2.0 in it than 1.8.0. For example unit tests for 2.2.0 are fully green on Debian/sid, both on Python 2 and Python 3, while unit tests for 1.8.0 have several breakages. See these links to see the bugs that have been address in over a year: https://launchpad.net/testtools/+milestone/1.9.0 https://launchpad.net/testtools/trunk/1.8.1 https://launchpad.net/testtools/trunk/2.0.0 https://launchpad.net/testtools/trunk/2.1.0 https://github.com/testing-cabal/testtools/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed Free
