Hi Pirate, On 05-12-16 06:58, Pirate Praveen wrote: > When many maintainers do this breaking updates without consulting > maintainers of reverse dependencies (update of jquery to version 3 broke > diaspora), it is seriously demotivating to maintain large packages like > gitlab and diaspora. There will be many to break but not many to help > fix. It took years of work to bring these packages to their current > state and having to fix these issues at the last moment of a release is > not fun.
What we need is improved handling of transitions in the JavaScript area of our archive. Having jquery (and jquery-ui) not updated for stretch, was IMHO also not an option. But these kind of thing need to trigger proper transitions, like we do for libraries. I believe that jquery was believed to be backwards compatible (at least that is what I understood from the logs). I felt that I had to fix the jquery-ui situation before stretch, mostly because the old package wasn't build from source. I could have filed an RC bug about that but I believe the maintainer isn't active in Debian these days, so that wouldn't be a great solution. I decided to fix the package myself and take the blame.... So I am taking the blame here and now. I didn't realize how fragile the JavaScript interface in our archive is. Sorry, and to prevent further damage, I'll not touch existing JavaScript packages again. Paul
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