From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:56:19 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <7vod5kd3im.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v3amv1e8n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vprpwhp7t.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vlk0ffhw3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vtzf1w0rj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vabgqsc37.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vtzetjbif.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vzlokhpk7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080714085555.GJ32184@machine.or.cz> <20080714124109.25414.qmail@06d015ec9c6744.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Petr Baudis , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Gerrit Pape X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 14 14:58:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KINcG-0001Z3-9g for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:57:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753113AbYGNM4V (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:56:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753103AbYGNM4V (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:56:21 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:39709 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752959AbYGNM4U (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:56:20 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 14 Jul 2008 12:56:18 -0000 Received: from grape.st-and.ac.uk (EHLO grape.st-and.ac.uk) [138.251.155.28] by mail.gmx.net (mp007) with SMTP; 14 Jul 2008 14:56:18 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/dcN8x+UbdBB4OdfZ4ntCjryIDdRxr77M6RjOmi2 pv+cnyyAOa6JrA X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <20080714124109.25414.qmail@06d015ec9c6744.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.61 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, 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. Heh. It was a feeble attempt at humor production ;-) > 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