Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > Dear debian-release team, > > Xorp in lenny and sid is at version 1.5~cvs.20080519-1, this version is > not however, a final release and has bugs that have been fixed in the > 1.5 release which was released a few months later (22nd of July) but we were > not able to package+upload it in time for the freeze, which happened just a > week later. > > We have uploaded a 1.5 version to experimental but would like to know the > opinion of the release team on having 1.5 in sid and unblocking it for lenny. > Would that be possible? > > One of the bug that fixes this final release is #493157 which basicly means > that in the current version in testing IPv4 multicast routing does not work. > Upstream has also fixed #494223, which makes it possible to compile Xorp > if using a 2.6.26 kernel.
> Needless to say, we, the XORP maintainers, would be more comfortable > providing support in the next release (lenny) of a full release and not a CVS > snapshot, as is currently provided. Specially if we are talking of *security* > support for the package, as it will be more difficult to backport any > security fixes introduced in the package if we are using the CVS release. > > We would appreciate some advice on how to proceed with this package, thanks. Please upload 1.5 to unstable. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
