[Pkg-osm-maint] Bug#685153: [josm] New upstream release. Please introduce to wheezy

[David Paleino]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:58:56 +0200, colliar wrote:

> On 27/10/12 17:12, David Paleino wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:33:05 +0200, colliar wrote:
> > 
> >> Please, introduce the unstable version into wheezy (testing),
> > 
> > I can't, sorry.
> 
> We should ask for an exception !

We're quite late in the freeze, and the diff between the two versions is quite
large.

> >> as a version before the changes needed to work after the licence change
> >> does not match Debian release policy.
> > 
> > What problems does it have, exactly?
> 
> 1. Major concern is an OSM api change in July. see (r5326, r5328, r5332,
> r5333, r5334, r5346, r5349, r5350, r5351)

Could these be backported to 5267?

> 2. The redaction bot introduced hidden OSM object versions which led to NPEs
> with the history viewer and validator.

Do you have specific commits fixing the above problems?

Unfortunately, Debian's release team won't accept the unstable JOSM version
into testing, as is. What I can (try to) do is backporting the patches to 5267,
and upload that to testing-proposed-updates.

Thanks for contacting me,
David

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