Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: freeze-exception
Hello release team! I am writing on behalf of the puppet packaging team. We would like to request a freeze exception for the puppet 2.6.2-1 package. The existing version in Squeeze contains too many severe bugs, including a few RC regressions. If we ship the version that is in Squeeze, puppet will be unusable for a very long time in Debian. How we got here was a case of bad timing. The upstream release of puppet 2.6.0 arrived (July 20th) right before the Debian freeze (August 6th). This resulted in the package transitioning into Squeeze and then almost immediately after, we froze. This was an unfortunate situation as the 2.6.0 version of the software turned out to be significantly buggy and unsuitable for release. In fact, the RC bug #597399 was filed which pointed out some severe regressions from the previous version. Puppet 2.6.2 primarily is a bug fix release to fix a number of usability issues, documentation fixes and license clarifications. We attempted to go through a process of cherry-picking a number of commits from 2.6.1/2 to 2.6.0 to fix these important bugs, but there are still a large number of unfixed issues in the debian package. Continuing to do this would result in a Debian version of puppet that differs from both 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 which would be difficult to support in the long run, and confusing for the users. We also did some packaging restructuring for after 2.6.0 but have decided that in the interests of fixing only the necessary bits for release, we have reverted the packaging restructuring for the 2.6.2 version that we would like to enter into Squeeze. Let us know if you have any questions, and thank you very much for your hard work on Squeeze, it is very appreciated! unblock puppet/2.6.2-1 -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- 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/20101018002159.999.14389.report...@algae.riseup.net
