Re: new ebtables upload
Hi Bart,
Thank you for your reply.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org> wrote:
> I couldn't resist having a quick look now. :-) I suggest to ask debian-release
> for a pre-approval for wheezy with a debdiff including all three changes. So I
> suggest to keep the flag "needs sponsor" at mentors on "no" for now.
> Fixing
> 697276 (kmod) looks like a safe change that should be fixed in wheezy.
Regarding the policy status, it will be refused.
> On bug
> 697275 I'm not sure, so you should doublecheck and doubletest that the change
> does not change anything that has been fine in testing during the freeze so
> far. Make sure that there's no regression at all.
Already done. Bug reproduced before and fixed; I did several tests.
> Bug 684592 should really be
> fixed in wheezy, so it's even worth a separate upload for wheezy in my opinion.
> Depending on the outcome of debian-release you can go ahead with requesting
> sponsorship for this package as-is (set "needs sponsor" to "yes") or do a
> separate upload for wheezy with reduced changes you got pre-approval for.
> Other changes are best uploaded to experimental, not to unstable, so that
> unstable remains available for additional uploads for wheezy. More questions
> best via debian-mentors, so other sponsors can help you faster than I can.
ok; I can try sending a request with the debdiff and generate a
package depending on the changes accepted.
--
William
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