Hi Russell, 2012/4/25 Russell Sim <russell....@gmail.com>: > > Bálint Réczey <bal...@balintreczey.hu> writes: > >> Why does the absence of 1.0 version prevent the upload to unstable? >> There has been many 0.xx releases and the package can be blocked from >> migration to testing if it is really not ready for being released as >> part of Debian. >> I would like to upload a package depending on libgit2, thus i would >> like to see libgit2 >> in unstable. :-) > > I don't know too much about blocking things from testing but I believe > this is not recommended practice. The problem is that the API is Filing a blocker RC bug is widely used when the package is not considered to be ready or useful as part of the stable distributuion: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=414385
> changing in backwards incompatible ways with every version change. So > the reason it's in experimental is because it is a more appropriate > place for a package that is undergoing these kinds of changes. You will > still able to access the package from the experimental repository and > any packages that depend will probably need to be uploaded to > experimental. I would also recommend adding a dependency on the > specific version i.e. 0.16 because there are already symbol renames in > master that will break compatibility. In case of young libraries it is normal, IMO it could be part of stable. > >> Could you please ship static library in libgit2-dev? >> I used the attached slightly modified debian patch for generating it. > Great Scott a patch, that's fantastic, I'll look into adding this and > pushing it back upstream to the authors (if you haven't already done > this). I'll have to check with my mentor regarding doing another > upload. Please see the patch attached, it is more readable this way. I also tried pushing it upstream, but it has not been accepted yet: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/639 > >> Do you plan resurrecting the package repository at GitHub? > Sorry for removing that without putting a forwarding url, I have a guest > account on Alioth and I have uploaded it there, but I can't see it with > gitweb so I'll have to investigate further. In the meantime there is a > mirror on my adhoc personal hosting [1]. Thanks, I switched to the Alioth repository instead. Cheers, Balint > > Regards, > Russell > > 1. http://git.russellsim.org/?p=packages/libgit2.git;a=summary
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