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.