Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2018-06-19 Thread Vincas Dargis
Any news after half a year? Why it's marked "fixed-upstream"?

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2017-11-04 Thread Anthony Towns
Hey Luke, Jonas, On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 08:31:33PM +, Luke Dashjr wrote: > > >> I believe Bitcoin is now stable enough for stable release. > > > Things have only gotten less stable upstream since 2013... > > Please provide references supporting that. 0.15 is certainly "stable" in the sense t

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2017-11-03 Thread Luke Dashjr
On Friday 03 November 2017 1:27:24 PM Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Luke Dashjr (2017-11-03 11:25:23) > > > On Friday 03 November 2017 9:10:37 AM you wrote: > >> I believe Bitcoin is now stable enough for stable release. > > > > Things have only gotten less stable upstream since 2013... > >

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2017-11-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Luke Dashjr (2017-11-03 11:25:23) > On Friday 03 November 2017 9:10:37 AM you wrote: >> I believe Bitcoin is now stable enough for stable release. > > Things have only gotten less stable upstream since 2013... Please provide references supporting that. > What is the plan for getting secu

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272:

2014-06-25 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Luke Dashjr wrote: > On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 6:53:57 PM Scott Howard wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Scott Howard wrote: >> > Thank you, Chris. I think you articulated the situation well and the >> > options. >> >> one more thing: debian is discussi

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272:

2014-06-25 Thread Luke Dashjr
On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 6:53:57 PM Scott Howard wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Scott Howard wrote: > > Thank you, Chris. I think you articulated the situation well and the > > options. > > one more thing: debian is discussion dropping libdb (the db the node, > but not the wallet, u

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272:

2014-06-25 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Scott Howard wrote: > Thank you, Chris. I think you articulated the situation well and the options. one more thing: debian is discussion dropping libdb (the db the node, but not the wallet, uses). That might force our hand as well: either ship and support upstream

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2014-06-25 Thread Scott Howard
Thank you, Chris. I think you articulated the situation well and the options. On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > This is not necessary as the debian-installer already enables > stable-updates by default. stable-updates is enabled by default, but not stable-proposed-updat

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2013-12-17 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Scott, For your information I have a case that you might find interesting: Zabbix did not meet release criteria and was removed from "testing" just before release of Wheezy. Ever since yours truly was maintaining it in wheezy-backports. Why wouldn't we seek backports manager(s)' permission to

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: Bitcoin still not ready for stable release in Debian

2013-12-15 Thread Scott Howard
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Luke-Jr wrote: > I agree with Scott's assessment, although I would note that Debian *does* have > a suite that addresses the needs of Bitcoin: stable-updates. Mandatory > protocol rule changes would seem to fall within the "broken by the flow of > time" category.

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: backport branches are available

2013-09-04 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Luke-Jr wrote: > This isn't correct. We do support backported/stable versions in a separate git > repository: > https://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoind-stable/ > > Debian is welcome to choose a branch and I will do what I can to ensure it > receives long-ter

Bug#718272: [Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: backport branches are available

2013-09-04 Thread Luke-Jr
On Wednesday, September 04, 2013 4:58:58 PM Scott Howard wrote: > How are those updated? It appears whenever there is a current-version > micro-release, those commits are backported to the stable branches. I have a lot of different projects, and tend to cycle through them. Outside of that routine