[GRASS-dev] Re: please review: draft announcement for future 6.3.0 release

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 25 18:58:34 EST 2007


> Hamish wrote:
> > ... [WRT the version in Debian: it happened
> > that the first well tested & bug free version of the 6.2 line
> > (6.2.1) was released just before the Etch package freeze and the
> > Debian maintainers decided it was too close to give the new grass
> > package proper testing before then. It was decided it was better to
> > keep the 6.2.1 stable package for Etch in the DebianGIS repository
> > on Alioth. It's a shame, but hard to argue with.]
Markus:
> In fact, a shame. Since it was 6.2.*1*, this could indicate that
> *bugs* have been fixed. Well, their decision.


The problem wasn't 6.2.1 source.tgz being too "raw" and untested, it was
that the .deb package + debian modifications would be too "raw" and
untested.


Hamish




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