<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Thomas,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 November 2016 at 20:25, Thomas Goirand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zigo@debian.org" target="_blank">zigo@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">On 11/03/2016 12:08 PM, Free Ekanayaka wrote:<br>
> Package: python-testtools<br>
> Version: 1.8.0-4<br>
> Severity: normal<br>
><br>
> The 1.8.0 release is over a year old. In the meantime several bug<br>
> fixes and improvements have landed upstream and are available in<br>
> the 2.2.0 release, so we should upgrade the Debian package.<br>
><br>
> If you wish, I volunteer for co-maintainership or even simply an<br>
> ad-hoc NMU.<br>
<br>
</span>I'm not sure if it is such a good idea to upgrade testtools just before<br>
the freeze of Stretch. Maybe we'd better upload it to Experimental?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As mentioned, the 2.2.0 release is definitely an improvement over the 1.8.0, with bug fixes even. For a stable release like Stretch, I would rather prefer to see 2.2.0 in it than 1.8.0.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>See these links to see the bugs that have been address in over a year:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://launchpad.net/testtools/+milestone/1.9.0">https://launchpad.net/testtools/+milestone/1.9.0</a><br></div><div><a href="https://launchpad.net/testtools/trunk/1.8.1">https://launchpad.net/testtools/trunk/1.8.1</a><br></div><div><a href="https://launchpad.net/testtools/trunk/2.0.0">https://launchpad.net/testtools/trunk/2.0.0</a><br></div><div><a href="https://launchpad.net/testtools/trunk/2.1.0">https://launchpad.net/testtools/trunk/2.1.0</a><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/testing-cabal/testtools/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed">https://github.com/testing-cabal/testtools/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Free</div></div></div></div>