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[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

Yes, I think so.

Johannes