Re: [Lzip-bug] "Heads-up" for Debian 9 (stretch) Package Freeze

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Baumann wrote:
> do you remember the last time we were freezing Debian unstable in order
> to prepare a Debian release? You made sure that there were releases
> available so I could upload them just in time before the freeze. That
> way, we ended up with the latest and greatest lzip/lzip-related packages
> in what later became Debian 8 (jessie).

Sure. Thank you very much for keeping me informed of Debian freezes. :-)


> Now, for the next stable release which will become Debian 9 (strech),
> the freeze will be January 5th, 2017.
>
> It would be nice if you can make releases again in time, at latest a
> couple of days before above date. What do you think, would you mind
> "doing it" again for strech?

I was going to prepare a round of stable releases in a couple weeks, as 
soon as I finish some changes to GNU ed and verify that the latest 
release candidates of lzip built succesfuly in Debian and other distros. 
So this time we have plenty of time.


> (This is the first headsup, I would send another one in October or so,
> unless you're annoyed :)

No annoyance at all. It is even possible that lzip 1.19 is out before 
January of 2017. :-)


Thanks and regards,
Antonio.