On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 01:17:20PM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:24:53AM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: > >> This is to request the new version of Bacula to be included in > >> Sarge. This version fixes several important bugs, most > >> importantly an incompatibility with MySQL-4.1(now it is linked to > >> libmsqlclient12 instead), but also a reproducible crash in > >> "normal operational conditions"; I believe that this fix is very > >> important for our users to be able to normally use this piece of > >> software. > > $ debdiff b/bacula/bacula_1.36.2-2.dsc > > ../../../queue/accepted/bacula_1.36.3-1.dsc | wc -l 1351472 $ > > Even discounting that the majority of these changes appear to be to > > documentation, leaving only about 8,000 lines of non-doc changes, > > this is really too much to contemplate reviewing during the freeze. > The only other option i have is to backport all of the changes to > 1.36.2... Well, no; the option would be to backport the *release-critical* fixes to 1.36.2, and upload just those fixes to testing-proposed-updates. (Getting rid of the libmysqlclient10 dep would be "pseudo-RC" for these purposes.) > Apart from the fact that upstream applied some of my patches (and then > i had to retouch them -- whitespace related fixes mostly), the rest of > the changes are related to adding "fseeko" support and fixing some > bugs since the release of 1.36.2 > > Yes, there are many changes in the package, due to the fact that the > html documentation was removed and replaced by LaTeX sources... which > need latex2html(non-free) to build. I have fixed it by removing the > requirement on latex2html and generating just PDF documentation for > now. This is *much* better than the old one. > The rest of the differences... > I have just reviewed the output from debdiff ... there are not that > many changes from what i see... They may not seem like "that many changes" to you, but they're way too much for the release team to reasonably review. The release team's time is a finite resource, and it needs to be focused on addressing release-critical issues. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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