[Pkg-octave-devel] [NMU] Re: freeze exception for octave3.0

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-08-08 16:24]:

> Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 14:21 +0200 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> > * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-08-08 08:19]:
> > 
> > > Am Donnerstag, den 07.08.2008, 19:52 +0200 schrieb Luk Claes:
> > > > Thomas Weber wrote:
> > > > > Hi, 
> > > > > 
> > > > > would fixing #494139 (quoted below) qualify for a freeze exception?
> > > 
> > > I'll be fixing this over the weekend, so take this as an NMU. 
> > > 
> > > Rafael, I'll revert the change the the --build and --host variables for
> > > now, so we don't break ABI with the current version in Lenny. 
> > 
> > It's okay but, please, create a branches/lenny for that and give the package
> > version number 1:3.0.1-6lenny1 having minimal changes from 1:3.0.1-6.  Also,
> > I think it should be uploaded to testing-proposed-updates, instead of
> > unstable, but ask in debian-release first.
> 
> I guess we can still come by with unstable:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg00007.html
> 
> "If your package needs to be updated for Lenny, and the version in
> unstable doesn't contain extraneous changes (e.g, the version is the
> same between testing and unstable), please upload your fix to
> unstable and contact debian-release at lists.debian.org."

Yes, but since the changes for 3.1.* are already in SVN HEAD and since we
should have them in 3.0.* also, it will be better to create a branch for
lenny and upload -6lenny1 to testing-proposed-updates.  Let us use unstable
for something it should be used to, i.e. being unstable.

-- 
Rafael