Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-02-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Olaf: On Tuesday 01 February 2011 17:18:58 Olaf van der Spek wrote: > 2011/2/1 Jesús M. Navarro : > > So, may I propose (if not already done) a document that outlines with > > enough detail what Debian maintenance policy is and why from an upstream > > point of view, and then allow for within

Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-02-01 Thread Olaf van der Spek
2011/2/1 Jesús M. Navarro : > So, may I propose (if not already done) a document that outlines with enough > detail what Debian maintenance policy is and why from an upstream point of > view, and then allow for within Stable upgrades for software that has > demonstrated to pursue the same standards

Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-02-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Ian: On Tuesday 01 February 2011 14:11:44 Ian Jackson wrote: > Thijs Kinkhorst writes ("Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze"): > > In the past such things have not been allowed with the argumentation that > > even though stable may contain bug

Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-02-01 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-02-01, Ian Jackson wrote: > This argument seems very absolutist and would seem to suggest we > should never do any stable release updates at all. But a user who > wants that level of stability can simply not take the stable release > updates, and only apply the security updates. That's n

Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-02-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Thijs Kinkhorst writes ("Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze"): > In the past such things have not been allowed with the argumentation that > even though stable may contain bugs, users rely on the behaviour that > stable has. They may know about a bug

Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-02-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 01 Feb 2011, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Mon, January 31, 2011 18:09, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > However, upstream's policy in their "stable" branches is alway to only > > fix "important" bugs (they don't call them this way...but the > > definition is fairly close to Debian's). So, *in th

Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-02-01 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, January 31, 2011 18:09, Christian PERRIER wrote: > However, upstream's policy in their "stable" branches is alway to only > fix "important" bugs (they don't call them this way...but the > definition is fairly close to Debian's). So, *in the case of samba*, I > can guarantee that the user's

Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-01-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Samuel Thibault Hi, | His question could be rephrased: will the 6.0.x updates be allowed to | pick up new upstream "stable" fixes releases? While I can't speak for the release team (neither the stable or the «regular» one), I know that postgresql stable releases are generally allowed into ne

Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-01-31 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Max Kellermann (m...@duempel.org): > I'm the upstream maintainer of the Music Player Daemon project, and > receive a number of support requests / bug reports from Debian users > who use the outdated version 0.15.12 of "mpd", currently in testing. > These bugs were already fixed in newer ma

Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-01-31 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:25:11 +0100, Max Kellermann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the upstream maintainer of the Music Player Daemon project, and > receive a number of support requests / bug reports from Debian users > who use the outdated version 0.15.12 of "mpd", currently in testing. > These bugs were al

Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-01-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michal Čihař, le Mon 31 Jan 2011 16:01:54 +0100, a écrit : > Dne Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:25:11 +0100 > Max Kellermann napsal(a): > > > I'm the upstream maintainer of the Music Player Daemon project, and > > receive a number of support requests / bug reports from Debian users > > who use the outdated

Re: Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-01-31 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:25:11 +0100 Max Kellermann napsal(a): > I'm the upstream maintainer of the Music Player Daemon project, and > receive a number of support requests / bug reports from Debian users > who use the outdated version 0.15.12 of "mpd", currently in testing. > These bugs were a

Upstream "stable" branches and Debian freeze

2011-01-31 Thread Max Kellermann
Hi, I'm the upstream maintainer of the Music Player Daemon project, and receive a number of support requests / bug reports from Debian users who use the outdated version 0.15.12 of "mpd", currently in testing. These bugs were already fixed in newer maintenance releases. I know that Debian does no