Re: RFS: cppcheck, new upstream version 1.45

[Reijo Tomperi <aggro80@users.sourceforge.net>]

Joachim Reichel wrote:
> Hi Reijo,
>
> > > Reijo Tomperi <aggro80@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> > > > New upstream version was released, so I made a new Debian package of it.
> > > >
> > > > I'm again looking for a sponsor for it.
> > >     Your package looks fine to me (as far as I have checked). Are you
> > > aware of the freeze for Debian's squeeze release? Do you want this to
> > > indeed go to unstable right now? Putting into experimental would be
> > > another option.
> > It fixes at least one segfault which occurs with old version (1.44) (No
> > Debian ticket about it):
> > http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/cppcheck/ticket/1944
> >
> > There are a lot of other changes (170 closed upstream tickets).
> >
> > If it is up to me, I would put this into unstable, but someone with
> > better knowledge about Debian policy and rules might have other opinion.
>
> I guess what Christoph meant is the following: if you upload 1.45 to unstable
> you block this way for fixes to 1.44 in testing (and the RM will most probably
> not allow 1.45 to migrate to testing).

Can this be asked from the RM?

--
Reijo