On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 07:54:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
> I plan to upload Jmol 14 to unstable on Tuesday 20th December, sometime in
> the afternoon UTC.
OK.
> Consequences: I don't believe there are any negative consequences for the
> other packages. jalview, biojava3-live, biojava4-live are *already* scheduled
> to be removed on Jan 9. In fact uploading Jmol would reset this date to be
> further in the future, since it would close the RC bug that is causing this
> schedule. (Someone might then file FTBFS directly against these other
> packages, since they don't build against this new Jmol, but the counter would
> also be reset in that case.) There is a slight chance that I'm wrong about
> some/all of this, since I'm not *exactly* familiar with the release process,
> but this is based on what I understand from reading their documents and doing
> packaging for a few years.
I hope we can keep biojava4-live and upgrading jalview would be great
but probably having sagemath is more important and we can work on
backporting jalview later.
> If anyone doesn't want me to do this, please let me know before that date.
Thanks for your effort
Andreas.
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