Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 14, 2008, 12:56 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807141354310.8950@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080714124109.25414.qmail@06d015ec9c6744.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Gerrit Pape wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:57:56PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > > I'm saying this because I believe the best conservative upper bound for 
> > > backwards compatibility is Git version in Debian stable. It gets 
> > > probably the most stale from all the widely used software distributions 
> > > using Git, and it *is* quite widely used. Etch carries v1.4.4.4, which 
> > > fails miserably on the new packs.
> > 
> > Can't we just hit Debian's Git maintainer with a clue bat or a bus, 
> 
> Please don't.  It wouldn't help, rather the opposite I think, espacially
> the bus.

Heh.  It was a feeble attempt at humor production ;-)

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> We don't introduce new upstream versions into a Debian stable release, 
> there's a great effort done for each stable release to reach high 
> quality integration of all the software packages available in Debian.  
> Once that status is reached, only security fixes and criticial usability 
> fixes are added.

If that is the case, we might need to think about fixing that segmentation fault to 1.4.4.5... Which would be a minor pain in the donkey, I guess.

> The freeze of the packages for the next stable release is planned a few 
> days from now, so it looks like Debian 'lenny' will include git 1.5.6.x.

>From my memories of IRC, it seems that quite a few people do not even

consider upgrading.

Ciao, Dscho