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 -- 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
