Hi Mehdi, On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 03:00:22PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > [...] > > It makes opam unusable for jessie users: already initialised ones can't > > install new compilers nor update packages, and with a fresh install opam > > is almost unusable (e.g. [3]). > > Unfortunately, we won't be able to upgrade Opam to 1.2.2 in Debian stable. > I can ask for its removal, or document in this bugreport how to point their > installation to a frozen working mirror?
Doesn't the release policy allow shipping a new upstream version to *-pu, if
there is no other way to get the bug resolved (and after consulting the release
team) ? Or is the issue that there won't be new point releases ?
(I'm not up to speed on the policies for oldstable, unfortunately.)
> In the meantime, I'll work on a {sloppy-,}backport of 1.2.2.
Thanks :)
Best,
nicoo
PS: Thanks again for filing the bug report, Raja.
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