On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 1:23 PM Adam D. Barratt <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk>
wrote:

> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
> On 2018-07-09 07:12, Jose Gutierrez de la Concha wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 1:53 PM Adam D. Barratt
> > <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 2018-02-26 at 12:48 +0100, Jose Gutierrez de la Concha
> >> wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> any change we can get this approved on time for debian 9.4?
> >>>
> >>
> >> The current diff is nearly 20,000 lines, with a lot of effective
> >> noise
> >> like changing quoting on command invocation and logging, and s/OS
> >> X/macOS/, which is really difficult to try and find real changes in,
> >> and probably one of the reasons that people unfortunately keep not
> >> finding time to deal with this request (which isn't an excuse,
> >> but...).
> >
> > I understand, there were a lot of minor and cosmetic changes in this
> > release,
> > but still it will be good to get it uploaded at some point as there is
> > some important
> > bug fixes see
> > https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice/blob/v3.6.4/CHANGELOG-3.6.md
> >
> > We will eventually release 3.6.5 and we will be in a better position
> > if 3.6.4 is arlready
> > in stretch.
>
> Unfortunately this managed to not make it onto anyone's radar for some
> time again. :-| (and it appears that 3.6.5 was rleeased in the
> meantime.)
>
> >> One thing I did notice from a quick look through the packaging
> >> changes
> >> is that introducing new binary packages (i.e. the Python 2 bindings)
> >> is
> >> not something that is generally done within a stable Debian release.
> >
> > Python2 packages were requested in
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=855552
> > We can consider leaving this package out  if that is an stopper.
>
> It would be at this stage, yes.
>
> Is this update (now for oldstable rather than stable) something you're
> still interesting in persuing?
>
>
I think will be better at this point to create a new issue to try to get
3.6.5 in oldstable,
which will be probably the last release on the 3.6 series. I'll close this
bug and create
a new one for 3.6.5 once I get things ready.

Cheers,
José

Regards,
>
> Adam
>


-- 
José Gutiérrez de la Concha
ZeroC, Inc.

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