[tahoe-dev] tahoe-lafs 1.9.1 shipped in the next Debian stable

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

On 15/06/12 11:59, bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In a hurry to see tahoe-lafs shipped in the next Debian stable release,
> I've updated the package, and Micah uploaded it yesterday in sid.
> 
> So Debian users can now run a fresher tahoe (1.9.1).
> 
> If you have a look at the packages sources, you'll see that I added a
> manpage, that I'll be happy to see merged and maintained upstream if of
> any help (see debian/tahoe.1).

There's a manpage in docs/man/tahoe.1.

> In this rush against the next Debian stable freeze, I didn't really
> checked the status of the next tahoe-lafs release. The point was to see
> it included, and it has good chances to be! :)
> 
> Now if a new tahoe-lafs release has to come soon, and moreover with tons
> of bug fixes, I'd be happy to package it so that this version would be
> shipped.
> 
> But the Debian freeze is coming closer, so I was wondering if you people
> think that the new tahoe-lafs release will pop up in sufficient time, that
> is in the next 7/10 days (a bit less would help)?

I think that can be done. I'll provisionally set the deadline for next
Wednesday (5 days from now). That does assume that no additional
regressions are found before then.

> I understand this is quite short and I do not summon you to release
> because of Debian internal agenda. It will include tahoe-lafs anyway.
> 
> A workaround might be to find a bug that would be considered RC for
> Debian. If it pops up something in your mind, please tell me. :)

1.9.0/1 introduced several regressions in mutable file support (relative
to 1.8.3) that will be fixed in 1.9.2.

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥

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