From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Knadle Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:27:51 +0000 Subject: Re: [mlmmj] address duplication in subscribers list Message-Id: <56154807.6020808@coredump.us> List-Id: References: <56124C29.3080502@firstweb.fr> In-Reply-To: <56124C29.3080502@firstweb.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org Marc Delpont: > A. Schulze : >> >> using the latest package from $os-vendor does not mean using the current >> version: >> >> http://mlmmj.org/hg/mlmmj/file/RELEASE_1_2_19_0/ChangeLog#l11 >> >> Andreas >> > > Thanks for this precision ! > > I was just pointing out that the penultimate revision of the last version > can't seriously be considered as an "old" version. That depends on your point of view. Your report was "hey this is broken", but it's been fixed "upstream" more than a year ago and Debian *Oldstable* (Wheezy) version doesn't have the fix. From that point of view, Debian Oldstable's version is old. Debian Stable (Jessie), Testing (Stretch) and Unstable (Sid) all have mlmmj 1.2.8.1-1 which should have the fix. It is possible to fix in Debian Stable and Oldstable, but the rules for those releases is that they can only get *important* fixes, not new versions... so to fix this someone would need to come up with the minimal patch required to fix the bug and submit it to a bug report. Then the maintainer could upload that fix as "mlmmj-1.2.8-1+deb8u1" to a pending-proposed-updates repository, which will then get incorporated into the distribution on the next "point release" of that distribution. (Usually every 3 months or so.) I don't think this particular bug would be considered worth going through all this. The easiest way around all this would be to backport the package for Wheezy and put it into an external repository. I just did this (because I'm likewise running mlmmj on Wheezy), so if you want it, it's available here: http://debian-packages.coredump.us direct link if you just want the .deb files than to add the repo: http://debian-packages.coredump.us/debian/pool/main/m/mlmmj/ -- Chris -- Chris Knadle Chris.Knadle@coredump.us