important information about coming evolve 6.3.0: update client and server together

Faheem Mitha faheem at faheem.info
Wed May 31 11:12:30 UTC 2017


On Wed, 31 May 2017, Pierre-Yves David wrote:

> Just to clarify, the message is about upgrading evolve only, not upgrade to 
> Mercurial needed here[1]. Current evolve version are compatible down to 
> Mercurial 3.8 so you should be fine here.

Yes, I see. but I was using upgrade in a loose term. Presumably one would 
need to occasionally patch even old versions of Mercurial.

>> I suppose nobody is currently available to upgrade the Mercurial
>> packaging. Does anyone know the situation here?

> The current packager "Javi Merino" is no longer have time to handle 
> this. We need to find someone else to file the gap.

> https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2017/05/msg00029.html

That's what I thought. Thanks for the confirmation. I might be able to 
assist a bit with this, but I don't think my skill levels are up to 
handling it solo. Tristan Seligmann followed up on this message. I might 
contact him about it.

Regards, Faheem Mitha



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