Hi, Sorry for not getting back to you sooner.
On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 12:55 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > We currently have 1.6 in the archive and the biggest difference between > that and 1.8 is lots of code rearrangment, cleanup and mechanical > changes, which would make my life more difficult when having to deal > with both code bases. [...] > The delta only relevant to code ending up in Debian binary packages: [...] > After manually trimming out license header additions and fixups (in > iu-trimmed_1.6-1.8.patch) we end up with: > > $ diffstat -n1 iu-trimmed_1.6-1.8.patch | tail -1 > 86 files changed, 1206 insertions(+), 1642 deletions(-) [...] > Which is still quite a bit, but mostly containing the listed code changes > above, and also several bug fixes and code changes including: Thanks for trimming down the diff. It does mostly look ok, although is still quite large. Are there any other distributions currently shipping 1.8? > * Switch from getopt to argp. > * It merges several of the patches present in Debian. > * ping new -w option (there's a wishlist bug report about this, needed to > make inetutils-ping option compatbile with iputils-ping, relied upon by This is the non option-parsing related sections of ping/ping.c (and much of the ping6.c changes) and the added function at the bottom of ping/ping_common.c? > other programs). > * Fixes an RC bug in inetd about IPv6 support. I assume that's #519316. Looking at the diff you provided, that appears to be trivially fixable in the current packages. > I'm also willing to commit to fixing any possible regression > introduced by such upload within 10 days from bug filing. Were we to look at releasing with 1.8, I'd also prefer to have a version in unstable which had been bug free for a little while before migrating it. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1281887153.29656.1025.ca...@kaa.jungle.aubergine.my-net-space.net
