Re: libircclient packaging (Chances to get it into Wheezy)?
On 2012-07-04 22:14, Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
> Hey
>
Hi,
> I have done some work on the recently orphaned libircclient package,
> (O/ITA: at [1]), updated it to the latest release, updated packaging to
> current standards, and amongst other things made it Multiarch aware, and
> enabled hardening in the build. (It hadn't been updated since 2009
> previously, so there were quite some stuff to do). See [2] for details
> on my changes.
>
> [...]
>
> Would anybody be interested in this, and perhaps help out getting a
> freeze exception so that we don't have to be stuck with this aged
> package for a complete release cycle?
>
> [...]
> Do you think there is any chance to get this into Wheezy?
>
> (CC'ing my standard sponsor - Are you interested in this, or are you
> busy with release-related work, Niels?)
>
While I appreciate your changes and that you are picking up an orphaned
package, I fear the changes are "too much" for unstable given that
Wheezy is frozen. This is especially true if it involves a transition
that has not been pre-approved.
I am open to sponsoring minimal changes to the existing package where
permitted by the freeze policy (see [1]). Or even uploading the new
version to experimental.
> Help would be very much appreciated -
> /Andreas
> gusnan@gusnan.se
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674882
> [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/libircclient.git
> [3] http://packages.debian.org/megaglest
> [4] http://packages.debian.org/pokerth
~Niels
[1] http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html
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