[cmake-developers] Fwd: Bug#414188: Please unblock cmake

[Andy Cedilnik]

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From: Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>
Date: Mar 9, 2007 4:56 PM
Subject: Bug#414188: Please unblock cmake
To: "A. Maitland Bottoms" <bottoms at debian.org>, 414188 at bugs.debian.org
Cc: debian-release at lists.debian.org


severity 414188 important
thanks

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 03:05:22PM -0500, A. Maitland Bottoms wrote:
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> There is a growing consensus that cmake 2.4.5-1 should
> be part of the Etch release.

> This has led to Bug #414188, which now should be considered
> by the release team.

[...]

> this bugreport is meant to make clear that CMake 2.4.4 shouldn't be
> shipped with Etch as that release contains some serious bugs. CMake
> 2.4.5 was released shortly after 2.4.4 to fix those bugs and should be
> moved to Etch before the release.

This is a bogus justification for a 'grave' bug.  Not only is cmake not
"unusable or mostly so", the package *is actively used* by 16 source
packages that use it for building -- including cdrkit.  Apparently, the most
serious bug cited in cmake 2.4.4 is an incompatibility with *Windows* which
has no direct relevance to what Debian ships.

Perhaps it should be updated in etch, but the current version is not
unreleasable (and it's also not expendable due to the aforementioned
reverse-dependencies).

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/




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