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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:30:39AM +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:12:33AM +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:49:04AM +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
> >> >> As announced on debian-devel-announce last week [1], Debian aims to
> >> >> freeze in the second half of June. This means that if we would like
> >> >> any new release to be part of the next stable release of Debian, we
> >> >> should try to release it in good time before that. Also Ubuntu stops
> >> >> their automatic import from Debian (DebianImportFreeze [2]) in late
> >> >> June.
> >> >>
> >> >> I would say that if 1.1 is not ready for a release yet, we should at
> >> >> least release 1.0.1 before the summer. Are there any release plans
> >> >> currently?
> >> >
> >> > Garth and I discussed a release of both 1.1.0 and 1.0.1 in June. Is
> >> > there an exact date?
> >>
> >> The Debian freeze is only "second half of June", while the
> >> DebianImportFreeze is June 21th. It will be possible to get a new
> >> release into Debian and Ubuntu after these freezes but it will be more
> >> complicated.
> >
> > So we should aim for June 20?
>
> Sounds good. That will give me one day (or one night) to make packages
> before the DebianImportFreeze ;-)

:-)

> Seriously, I'm not worried about DebianImportFreeze in Ubuntu. I have
> worked around that before. I'm a bit more worried about the Debian
> freeze though, but since there is no exact date I think June 20th
> sounds good.
>
> >> > Which one of 1.1.0 and 1.0.1 should go into Debian? Can we put 1.1.0
> >> > into Debian/Ubuntu 12.10 and 1.0.1 into 12.04?
> >>
> >> We cannot put a new release into 12.04, we can only fix bugs in the
> >> current packages. However, we can add 1.1.0 or 1.0.1 to the PPA for
> >> 12.04.
> >
> > Isn't 1.0.1 a bug fix release?
>
> Yes, but it is still a new upstream release. I don't think it is
> possible to get a new upstream release into an already released
> Ubuntu.

So what kind of fixes can get into Ubuntu? Only fixes by package
maintainers?

--
Anders