From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin Langhoff" Subject: Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:14:47 +1200 Message-ID: <46a038f90807142014l2c120467pe4a76b2c35a145f9@mail.gmail.com> References: <7vlk0ffhw3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vabgqsc37.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vtzetjbif.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vzlokhpk7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080714085555.GJ32184@machine.or.cz> <20080714124109.25414.qmail@06d015ec9c6744.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> <7v3amcgujd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080714191903.GB5788@mithlond.arda.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Junio C Hamano" , "Nicolas Pitre" , "Gerrit Pape" , "Johannes Schindelin" , "Petr Baudis" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Teemu Likonen" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 15 05:15:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KIb11-0000BL-GL for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:15:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752809AbYGODOt (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:14:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752782AbYGODOt (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:14:49 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.172]:39357 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751321AbYGODOs (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:14:48 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so5159899wfd.4 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:14:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=V27VkpMXBEpUfuf+g6ak4aJX1zSgOej2w+oPTAVLANQ=; b=JxSioFFo/bk+XsADzS8R+MjRGu1neBW5AkHiE8bwYm1jdWaZsd4bunvEEYCkmjaYDj hIPbUQfFKNqVtUwqkWXYLLNrq7BwQPk7IG6Z4RFhwNhAKQAEmrgZCl/YIv7+z2LI9j16 ezRJ19xzO+vHgNGcfjqXYYQbjHsuadsyeX4Zw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=scSMpWOLiFrC4ZGJ3lmPNxQgCylnoFOOf2Hfr3qv9bbOjWL/PL66Cu6fD9bHDVMFtq MEwFT23nLI2dtufvox8c18GCeBKPnqX+d530G33N88TiVcxqMuyvfpNtxuSeUnfOwMoh n0ZcAz1UNHgHHe2FEFzg+reVSrBhLkBw2o5Ok= Received: by 10.142.154.20 with SMTP id b20mr4466357wfe.99.1216091687588; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:14:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.223.21 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:14:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080714191903.GB5788@mithlond.arda.local> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: >> But as the upstream, we have our own deprecation schedule. > > As Debian stable (4.0 "Etch") and its git 1.4.4.4 was mentioned I'd like > to point out that git 1.5.6 is available for Etch users from > kind-of-semi-official . So I guess Debian stable > users aren't left completely behind. Git's web page already advertises > backports.org version for Etch. I concur. Users of git on Etch are using backports AFAIK. We still have the case of the "casual" user, who does not know much about git, but installs it to clone & review a project's code. There, if v1.4.4 complains with a useful message, the casual user will swear a bit and grab a backport. If it dies a horrible uninformative death, then we will get bogus bug reports, flamage, the works. cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff