Re: Upload of TeX Info 7.0.x to unstable?
Hi Hilmar
On 2023-01-25 23:17:54 +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> Am 25.01.2023 um 22:08 teilte Sebastian Ramacher mit:
> > On 2023-01-24 09:23:26 +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
>
> Hello Sebastian,
>
> > > 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.
> >
> No, I did not. Could you trigger that or let me know how to do it?
There's https://wiki.debian.org/MassRebuilds - best to talk to Lucas.
Best
Sebastian
--
Sebastian Ramacher
Reply to: