Re: request for exception for popt

[Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:56:16AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * Frans Pop [Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:23:22 +0200]:
> 
> > However, if this package is really blocking an important transition, I 
> > (with Otavio being away) also have no objection to letting the current 
> > version migrate before the new upload, on the understanding that the new 
> > upload with the revert will also be accepted into Lenny.
> 
> Ack. We're indeed letting -3 in, because it's blocking quite a few
> packages. Paul, feel free to upload a new version at your earliest
> convenience, and please somebody mail us for an unblock when -4 is ready
> to migrate.

I've uploaded -4 today. It's a lot smaller. :-)

popt (1.14-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove locale data from the udeb, and change the package
    description. The debian-installer developers are sure that they
    don't need the localization information, mainly error messages.
    (Thanks to Frans Pop for bringing this to my attention.)

 -- Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>  Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:25:34 +0100

$ dpkg --contents deb/popt/libpopt0-udeb_1.14-4_i386.udeb
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2008-06-25 07:27 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2008-06-25 07:27 ./lib/
-rw-r--r-- root/root     28084 2008-06-25 07:27 ./lib/libpopt.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2008-06-25 07:27 ./lib/libpopt.so.0 -> libpopt.so.0.0.0
$

-- 
Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>