On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 01:24:24PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 02:10:17PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > ke, 2012-08-08 kello 01:50 +0200, Cyril Brulebois kirjoitti: > > > > > Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> (30/07/2012): > > > > Since the version of testing, this contains mostly bug fixes and > > > > many translation updates, but also (starting with 0.8.5) one new > > > > module (apt.auth) which is a cleaned up version of an internal > > > > software-properties module (and not used by any code in unstable > > > > AFAIK). > > > > > > Then I'm not sure we need or want this new module in wheezy… > > > > Should this new module be rolled back and a new python-apt release > > produced just for Wheezy, then? > > How about adding a warning to the module that it is experimental? I'd > like to avoid rolling back stuff we already have in newer. Otherwise, > we could upload a 0.8.8 with a disabled module as well, but that might > create problems later on with merging Ubuntu packages that depend on > python-apt (>= 0.8.5) and expect apt.auth to be there. > > We could also create a 0.8.4.1 release for testing, by branching off > unstable's 0.8.7, merging the changelog entries for 0.8.5, 0.8.6, > and 0.8.7 into 0.8.4.1, and removing apt.auth mentions, and disabling > or removing that module. But that is a bit more work. We could also > name 0.8.4.1 as 0.8.4+wheezy1, but given that unstable is past 0.8.4 > already, just using 0.8.4.X instead of 0.8.4+wheezyX seems a bit > nicer.
I created a branch at http://anonscm.debian.org/bzr/bzr/apt/python-apt/debian-wheezy/ that is based on the debian-sid branch but disables auth.py. I am happy to upload this to wheezy if that approach is approved by the release team. Cheers, Michael -- 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/20120903091801.GO2796@localhost
