From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:57:56 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <7vk5ggipuw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vej6l3lp7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vod5kd3im.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v3amv1e8n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vprpwhp7t.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vlk0ffhw3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vtzf1w0rj.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Petr Baudis X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 14 13:59:27 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 1KIMhl-0003S1-BB for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:58:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753152AbYGNL56 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:57:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753113AbYGNL55 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:57:57 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:52194 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753111AbYGNL55 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:57:57 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 14 Jul 2008 11:57:55 -0000 Received: from grape.st-and.ac.uk (EHLO grape.st-and.ac.uk) [138.251.155.28] by mail.gmx.net (mp053) with SMTP; 14 Jul 2008 13:57:55 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19UdCMpPhZUzM5aSMG2u7UTdYHeqXGGFMHqhgnfAx sOwZ627m4WVVhr X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: <20080714085555.GJ32184@machine.or.cz> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.72 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote: > I'm saying this because I believe the best conservative upper bound for > backwards compatibility is Git version in Debian stable. It gets > probably the most stale from all the widely used software distributions > using Git, and it *is* quite widely used. Etch carries v1.4.4.4, which > fails miserably on the new packs. Can't we just hit Debian's Git maintainer with a clue bat or a bus, whichever is easier, and force them to upgrade _in_ Etch? It's not like we haven't had _several_ stable releases in-between. Ciao, Dscho