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 -- 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
