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. 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. Regards, Gerrit. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
