[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#843037: Bug#843037: python-testtools: New upstream 2.2.0 available

[Thomas Goirand]

On 11/03/2016 09:17 PM, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On 3 November 2016 at 20:25, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org
> <mailto:zigo at debian.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 11/03/2016 12:08 PM, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>     > Package: python-testtools
>     > Version: 1.8.0-4
>     > Severity: normal
>     >
>     > The 1.8.0 release is over a year old. In the meantime several bug
>     > fixes and improvements have landed upstream and are available in
>     > the 2.2.0 release, so we should upgrade the Debian package.
>     >
>     > If you wish, I volunteer for co-maintainership or even simply an
>     > ad-hoc NMU.
> 
>     I'm not sure if it is such a good idea to upgrade testtools just before
>     the freeze of Stretch. Maybe we'd better upload it to Experimental?
> 
> 
> As mentioned, the 2.2.0 release is definitely an improvement over the
> 1.8.0, with bug fixes even.

If following the semantic versioning, 2.x means incompat with 1.x, so it
doesn't feel right so close from Stretch freeze. If it was bugfix only,
then I'd be more confident, but that's not the case. Myself alone
maintain 88 reverse build-dependencies. Are you sure none will break?
Upgrading to 1.8.1 seems more reasonable to me.

> For a stable release like Stretch, I would
> rather prefer to see 2.2.0 in it than 1.8.0.

> For example unit tests for 2.2.0 are fully green on Debian/sid, both on
> Python 2 and Python 3, while unit tests for 1.8.0 have several breakages.

Of testtools itself? Isn't its reverse build-depends more important?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)