Very old merges

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 19/07/06 at 13:41 +0200, Stefan Potyra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag 18 Juli 2006 09:28 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've tried to take a different look at the list of needed merges.
> > [0] already shows the evolution of merges to do compared to Debian
> > as of today, and to snapshots of Debian in the past.
> >
> > One particularly interesting list of merges to do is the list of
> > packages in Edgy that are currently older than the version in Debian
> > at Dapper UVF date. It would allow a user to say : "what? You still
> > have v.X ? Debian has had v.Y since January 2006 !"
> 
> Great work, thanks for that list. What would rock even more is if you
> could also generate such a list that compares upstream versions rather
> than debian vs. ubuntu versions. I guess both new upstream versions
> compared to dapper UVF date and new upstream versions as of compared
> to edgy now might be handy.  What do you think?

Well, it's certainly do-able for packages with watch files (Debian
already does this in the PTS) (see [0] for example). However, it's not
really easy since you have to get the watch file inside the source
packages, I think.

[0] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net

Also, I'm not sure that in the general case, it's a good idea to put
newer upstream versions in universe (in the case where Debian hasn't
packaged it yet). While processing those old merges, I ran into several
packages where the decision was made to introduce a newer upstream
version, but they were then forgotten.

Maybe we should work more on getting all packages slightly better,
rather than spending a lot of time on a few packages (introducing newer
upstream versions, etc).
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