Re: Upload of TeX Info 7.0.x to unstable?
Hi Hilmar,
On 2023-01-24 09:23:26 +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> Dear release managers,
>
> TeX Info version 7.0 was released last year at beginning of November and
> was uploaded to experimental. We got a few bug reports, which were
> addressed by upstream authors promptly.
> Since then two bugfix releases appeared (currently 7.0.2) and we could
> think about uploading to unstable. According to [1] we are neither in
> the tool chain nor would this be a transition. Nevertheless we know that
> a few(?) packages use makeinfo and texi2* to convert documents, so
> uploading could cause breakage and FTBFS bugs when building docs.
Did you perform a test rebuild of the reverse build dependencies? That
would make it every easy to answer the question whether its safe or not.
Cheers
> Therefore I'm hesitating to upload even to unstable. Let me know your
> opinion.
>
> Hilmar
>
> [1] https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html
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