Re: [Monotone-devel] Packages for Debian testing

[Zack Weinberg]

On 7/7/07, Ludovic Brenta <address@hidden> wrote:
> I looked at the changelog, and indeed it has branches.  For example
> the current changelog (0.33-2) does not list 0.31-8 (or -7) at all.

Argh.

> So I closed the two bugs; they will not block monotone from going into
> testing.

Was that really the right thing to do?  Those bugs are real and
present in 0.33-2; it's just that they're in 0.31-8 as well...

> However, boost has been blocked for 53 days by 2 RC bugs;
> one of them is fixed in experimental but the other one (#429533) seems
> problematic.
>
> The 0.33-2 in unstable is built against boost 1.34.0-1, which has both
> bugs.

Double argh, and IMO entirely destroys the point of doing 0.33-2 at
all; it was supposed to be built against 1.33.1, to avoid those
problems and the known bugs in monotone <=0.35 when boost 1.34 is in
use!

... however, I have just installed the 0.33-2 package from unstable,
and it sure *looks* like it's built against boost 1.33; are you sure?

> Also, it was built with g++-4.2 (the new default C++ compiler
> as of two weeks ago), so watch out for any bugs.

... according to mtn --full-version, this is not true either.

> I think it is appropriate to allow the package to mature a little more in 
> unstable.

I'm not proposing to push it in ahead of the 10-day window, but I'd
like to see it go in as soon as possible after that.

zw