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Re: exception for unionfs-fuse, please



Bernd Schubert wrote:
> Dear Release-Team,
> 
> I would like to ask for an exception of my package unionfs-fuse. A new version 
> has been release yesterday, which fixes one critical bug (I discovered myself 
> on Thursday). The bug is a deadlock happening on unions of /etc and /var, 
> when any syslog() call is made by unionfs-fuse. Since it is not simple to fix 
> this, all syslog() calls have been disabled for now.
> The other (rather largish) change/bug-fix to the existing package in 
> testing/unstable is to allow read-only branches on top of read-write 
> branches. 
> 
> I didn't fill in a Debian bug report, since I'm the maintainer and also one of 
> the upstream authors.
> 
> I already uploaded a 0.20-5 version to mentors yesterday noon and the final 
> release 0.21-1 yesterday evening to mentors.debian.org. A kind mentor then 
> today uploaded the package, unfortunately about 2.5 hours after your "freeze" 
> announcement.

unblocked

Cheers

Luk


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