On 1/14/26 21:02, Nilesh Patra wrote:
While you’re right to point out that NEW processing could take time, asking FTP masters on #debian-ftp in the past seems to have worked for me to expedite processing of my uploads in the past. I also see other DDs doing so, and there’s at least some amount of success there.
Although this worked for me until a few months ago, it did not work for me as of lately. This, plus noting that we are at the highest recorded peak of packages in NEW (larger than about 50% from last maximum and about 100% from the previous one) [1], plus the fact I see no meaningful processing since November (I think? It's not like graph [2] is super clear), plus the recent back and forth between the DPL and the (former?) ftpmasters gives me the strong impression the NEW queue is not currently actionable.
Again please do not take what I say as blaming the ftpmasters *whatsoever*, just as acknowledging the current situation.
I feel the situation wrt
NEW processing is better than it sounds on the bug report.
See above.
That being said, I/do/ agree with the downgrading of severity to important (I took a look at the corresponding rustsec as well). There are tons of (upstream) un-maintained packages in Debian already, which haven’t seen activity for more than 3-4 years (which also includes some of Jonas’ packages). I don’t see why this package is particularly special to warrant a serious severity bug report. I am tempted to re-assign the severity to important again (someone changed it meanwhile) but playing ping-pong is not the best use of my time.
Yeah, me too, but let's avoid that. I've already prepared the package for NEW.
[1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/stat/new-5years.png [2] https://ftp-master.debian.org/stat/new-year.png