[Pkg-sympa-devel] Let's stay with 6.0 for Squeesh (6.1 is unstable)

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 10/11/2010 10:56 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:02:21AM +0200, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
>> On 10/10/2010 04:06 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just realized that the 6.1 branch is unstable upstream, so probably
>>> not something we want to maintain a beta release of for several years
>>> in Debian stable.
>>>
>>> Luckily the packaging currently in testing is 6.0 - I suggest we keep
>>> it at that.
>>>
>>> More detailed, I suggest we...
>>>
>>> a) Release my almost ready updated 6.1b.7 packaging for experimental
>>> b) Request ftpmasters to drop current 6.1b.4 packaging from unstable
>>> c) Release newest stable 6.0 release for unstable
>>> d) Request unblocking of that 6.0 packaging
>>>
>>>
>>> Any objections to this?
>>>
>>> Alternatively we can continue 6.1 in unstable, but then we lack a
>>> staging area for newer 6.0 packaging, which I am sure the release
>>> team won't like (and I don't like it myself!).
>>>
>>
>> We don't need to drop 6.1 from unstable. The RC bug in Squeeze Sympa
>> can be fixed via an upload to proposed-updates.
>
> True, but then we lack a staging area for newer 6.0 packaging, which I
> am sure the release team won't like (and I don't like it myself!).
>
> ...as I wrote right above :-P
>
> What I mean by "staging area" is a repository where our packaging is
> exposed to others that might spot flaws in our packaging. Unstable acts
> as a 10-day staging area for testing, with a lot of Debian developers as
> users. proposed-updates is less of a staging area in the regards of
> spotting errors, as it has much fewer users - relying mostly on the
> release team to (double-)check for flaws.
>
> But sure - we can try leave it as-is first. Will you get in touch with
> the release team about using proposed-updates?

The problem is if  I try to build the sympa for testing-proposed-updates
(branch debian/squeeze) with debuild, it crashes with:

make[4]: Entering directory `/home/racke/sympa/po'
File it.po does not exist. If you are a translator, you can create it through 'msginit'.
make[4]: *** [it.po-create] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/racke/sympa/po'
make[3]: *** [it.po] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/racke/sympa/po'
make[2]: *** [stamp-po] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/racke/sympa/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/racke/sympa'
make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1327:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed

Any advice ?

Regards
	Racke

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