Bug#777677: nginx: Please package 1.7 releases

2015-02-13 Thread Michael Lustfield
Debian 8 is currently frozen. Our focus during a freeze is on stability and not about newer and cooler things. When it's released, we'll worry about updating modules for testing and the other fun things. You might not mind third party modules missing or a lack of consistency, but that's not okay f

Bug#777677: nginx: Please package 1.7 releases

2015-02-13 Thread Thomas Ward
On 02/13/2015 01:45 PM, James Cloos wrote: >> "TW" == Thomas Ward writes: > JC>> But the current release SHOULD be available somwhere easy to apt-get. > > TW> We could create a separate nginx source package, called nginx-mainline, > TW> that conflicts with the other nginx packages. It would

Bug#777677: nginx: Please package 1.7 releases

2015-02-13 Thread James Cloos
> "TW" == Thomas Ward writes: JC>> But the current release SHOULD be available somwhere easy to apt-get. TW> We could create a separate nginx source package, called nginx-mainline, TW> that conflicts with the other nginx packages. It would be the mainline TW> branch, whereas nginx would be

Bug#777677: nginx: Please package 1.7 releases

2015-02-13 Thread Thomas Ward
On 02/13/2015 01:31 PM, James Cloos wrote: > But the current release SHOULD be available somwhere easy to apt-get. Well, I have an alternative, but this has to be cleared by Debian Devel people, and Kartik and the other maintainers. We could create a separate nginx source package, called nginx-ma

Bug#777677: nginx: Please package 1.7 releases

2015-02-13 Thread James Cloos
> "TW" == Thomas Ward writes: TW> I can understand the want of the newer features, but there's a bunch of TW> changes upstream in 1.7.x, and I don't think we can call it 'stable' TW> enough for inclusion. Sid really ought to have the most recent nginx release, but if that is too hard to sepa

Bug#777677: nginx: Please package 1.7 releases

2015-02-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Miguel, On 02/11/2015 09:47 AM, Miguel Landaeta wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't fully aware of this distinction > about nginx development branches. > > Maybe I should reword my concern. I'm finding nginx features only > available in 1.7 branch but I don't see any pa

Bug#777677: nginx: Please package 1.7 releases

2015-02-11 Thread Miguel Landaeta
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 07:32:04AM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote: > Debian has always stayed on the NGINX stable branch - Downstream in Ubuntu we > had this request and spun up a PPA, but we also have had requests for this in > the past. > > I believe Debian should continue to stick to the stable rel

Bug#777677: nginx: Please package 1.7 releases

2015-02-11 Thread Thomas Ward
Debian has always stayed on the NGINX stable branch - Downstream in Ubuntu we had this request and spun up a PPA, but we also have had requests for this in the past. I believe Debian should continue to stick to the stable release, rather than switch over to the mainline branch. -- Thomas

Bug#777677: nginx: Please package 1.7 releases

2015-02-11 Thread Miguel Landaeta
Package: src:nginx Severity: wishlist As title says. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.13-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8,