Re: [Tracker] ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.8.1 released (stable)

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com>]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:11, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 23:51, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com> wrote:
> > 2010/4/12 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com>:
> > > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 17:31, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com> wrote:
> > > > 2010/4/8 Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>:
> > > > > tracker 0.8.1 is now available for download from:
> > > > > http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.8/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > >
> > > > just wanted to let you know, that 0.8.1 packages are now available
> > > > from Debian experimental [1]. Given I get an ack from our release
> > > > team, I plan to get 0.8.x packages into squeeze.
> > >
> > > Kool stuff. Am just curious though how come you packaged 0.6.x just a
> > > few days ago. Was it in case 0.8.x got rejected or you weren't sure
> > > the major issues would be resolved in time or...?
> >
> > I've been sitting on the 0.6.96 packages and should have uploaded them
> > earlier, I guess.
> >
> > Yes, it's still not 100% sure, that 0.8.x will make it into squeeze,
> > but currently it looks quite ok. I'm currently looking at getting all
> > reverse-dependencies, like nautilus, totem or gtk, to properly support
> > tracker 0.8 and planning the transitions.
> >
> > As I had already done the work for 0.6.96 already, I decided to upload
> > it anyway.
> > In case 0.8.x makes it into squeeze it's just a few wasted buildd cpu
> > cycles. If 0.8.x doesn't make it, squeeze will have a solid 0.6
> > release.
>
> In that case I would have expected that you let 0.6.96 transition to
> Squeeze before uploading 0.8.1?

Sorry for the noise. This query was based on the thought that you did
upload 0.8.1 to Debian/sid. I only check now that it's in
Debian/experimental:
http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=tracker.


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