From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:54:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807141351540.12484@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20080714124109.25414.qmail@06d015ec9c6744.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Gerrit Pape wrote:

> 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.  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.

Please consider it as a critical usability problem.

Maybe we can release 1.4.5 with the ability to read index v2?  That 
wouldn't be hard to backport the reading part of it.


Nicolas