[dev] Fwd: Packaging horde 3.2 and kolab 2.2 for debian lenny : short schedule

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Mathieu PARENT <math.parent at gmail.com>:

>  I know posting to several lists is usualy not good. I hope you will
>  understand the reasons.
>
>  This mail is about coordination.
>
>  Horde [1] and Kolab [2] are currently RC, and will not have major
>  changes before their releases. The new version of kolab, 2.2, requires
>  horde 3.2, for freebusy and filter. Debian will also start a
>  soft-freeze early march [3]. This means that debian packaging teams
>  shouldn't ship packages except ''if you are sure that the software
>  will be stable before we release''. The upcoming debian version,
>  lenny, will be frozen in the middle of july.

[snip]

>  Upstream teams and packaging teams prefer to have recent enough
>  versions in debian. But these versions should be stable. So we have to
>  decide : Do we start packaging rc so that they go into lenny or do we
>  abandon these versions, which will be in lenny+1 (far away).

Horde 3.2 should easily be stable by July.

-chuck