Bug#678624: pu: package xz-utils/5.0.0-3

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

In March, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 14:40 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>>  * "What this most needs is more testing.  I know you have tested it,
>>    but I haven't had time to test it myself.  I should have some in
>>    the next month and do not think this should roll out to s-p-u until
>>    then."
>
> I'm currently tending towards this, fwiw. As I mentioned on IRC, I've
> added getting some testing done to my to-do list; the past few days have
> just been a little... occupied.

Ping.  I am personally confident about this update being safe and about
being capable of dealing with any unforseen problems with it quickly.  I
am the Debian maintainer of xz-utils (though I'd welcome comaintainers),
so that confidence should count for something.

I might be missing something, but it looks to me like something is going
wrong in the pu/spu process when this kind of request gets stalled in an
unactionable way for more than a year.  That's not meant to take away
from the other good work the team does, but maybe a call for help on
debian-devel-announce@ or some other kind of recruiting effort would
be warranted?

Thanks,
Jonathan