Preparation for the Cyrus 2.5 release

[Bron Gondwana]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014, at 05:13 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Hi Bron,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014, at 22:53, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > Our goal is to release a pretty-much feature complete alpha this week,
> > and ask everyone to test it soon.  We would like to have 2.5 ready for
> > inclusion in Debian Jessie, hence the time pressure.
> 
> the Debian Jessie freeze is going to happen on November 5th[1] and the
> migration time from unstable to testing is now 10 days.
> 
> That basically means unless you have a final 2.5 (or at least some
> RC[2]) at the end of the week (26th October), it's not going to be
> included in Jessie. 

OK - thanks.  This is largely my fault for leaving everything so long.  Busy lifestyle :(

> I don't see that as a big problem, since we can easily provide a 2.5 in
> debian-backports and the Ken's version I have in unstable seems to be
> pretty stable.
> 
> 1. https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html
> 2. I can push smaller changes via stable-package-update, but that means
> those changes needs to be small and isolated enough.

Everything that's in the tree is pretty close to RC state (except it doesn't build without --http yet, I'm nearly done with the #ifdefs for that).  The big things I want in, which aren't in yet, are sync and XFER related.

The nice thing is that the upgrade from 2.4 is pretty painless.

Bron.

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