[Pkg-octave-devel] Plans for Wheezy++

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le lundi 06 mai 2013 à 09:16 +0200, Thomas Weber a écrit :

> thanks to everyone for getting Octave and friends in shape for Wheezy. I
> really feel we are in the best shape in years with respect to Octave in
> a Debian stable release.

Yes, I think we’ve done a very good job as a team!

> Now, we should start to catch up. There are basically two ways to do
> this:
> 1) We upload everything we have in experimental into unstable as fast as
> possible.
> 2) We wait another 2-3 weeks, to let others break unstable.
> 
> I don't have any preference, but I do intend to not update my unstable
> laptop for the next 2-3 weeks, as a lot of things will hit unstable now. 

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer to wait for the resolution of #706761
before uploading to unstable. Please contribute to the discussion if you
have something to add there.

Depending on the outcome, we may want to revert my last commit to
octave-pkg-dev.

I plan starting to upload to unstable once this is settled out,
beginning with octave and octave-pkg-dev.

> Another thing are more long-term changes. We currently have two items in
> the ToDo list in the wiki, which seem to be manageable for Jessie.
> Anything else?

I am not entirely happy with the current situation where both Thomas and
me are listed in the Uploaders field of almost all DOG packages. I don’t
think this reflect the true situation with respect to package
maintainership. I would prefer a situation where we are listed only in
the packages in which we are truly interested (and for those packages
which no one is interested in, then we distribute them randomly across
us, or we keep the current situation). I think it would also be good if
Rafael was listed as Uploader for his packages of interest (note that
this does not require the DM or DD status, even though I would be very
happy if Rafael was taking back one of these), but this is his call. And
of course, since the packages are team maintained, this would not
prevent one of us to fix other people's packages, especially in case of
RC bug.

There will also be the Octave 3.8 transition, but we are not yet there.

Cheers,

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