On Saturday, June 18, 2011 03:45:43 PM George Danchev wrote: > Dear Release and Backports teams,
To correct my typos, "t-p-u" in the subject to be read as "s-p-u" (stable proposed updates). > Our libburnia packages (src:libburn/libisofs/libisoburn) in squeeze are > rapidly getting way too old as compared to these found in sid and testing. > The versions currently found in squeeze do not support JTE (jigdo Template > Export), lack quite some other features, and does not violate ECMA-119 > when if might be argued to be appropriate, #630714. > > Rationale: squeeze is used on pettersson (cdbuilder host) and recently > Kenshi Muto asked me to provide newer versions of libburnia to squeeze. > Perhaps other Debian image building teams like (live- and cut-) would find > that useful too, and of course we get more testing in return :-) > > To have all that support in squeeze, the jigit (libjte for JTE support) > package should be backported too. The source package of jigit is in squeeze > proper, but the newers versions from sid would introduce two more binary > packages (libjte-dev and libjte1). We can of course backport libburnia > stack to squeeze with the JTE support, but this would be a significant "with JTE support" to be read as: "without JTE support". > shortcut in my opinion. > > Also, unlike the versions curently found in squeeze, the packaging in sid > switched from cdbs + debsrc 1.0 to dh + debsrc 3.0 (quilt). That won't > introduce unsolvable issues in my opinion, will it? > > We will have new upstream release RSN, which mostly introduce corner case > bugfixes. I think that having these reside in sid until they reach testing > and then worry about backporting them to squeeze would be the right way to > go. > > However, I'd rather ask in advance what would be the most appropriate way > to have the libburnia stack from testing/sid offered for squeeze? > > Thanks. Sorry for the noise. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> -- 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/201106181636.44511.danc...@spnet.net
