Bug#738101: RFS: awstats/7.3+dfsg-1

[Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpichev@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 08:37:31PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> In general Debian expects sponsored package maintainers to be
> proactive about finding sponsors; contacting former sponsors, 

Sure, I like waste my time for Debian's bureacracy)

> working on their packages

I did this for ~3 years, until DM upload
permissions policy was changed and my usual workflow was broken.

> It is too late for awstats to reach Debian jessie before the freeze.

Hmm, perhaps I misinterpret [1], but it says "on the 5th of November
2014, and we will run one automated migration at that time".

[1] https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html

> As a result once someone sponsors it you would have to ask the release
> team for an unblock. That said, I'm not sure if they would accept a
> new upstream release.

There is not special requirements, so I think it's ok here to ask
for override of the 10-day delay.  Esp., there is no too much changes
from upstream.

Thank you for replay, anyway.

[1] https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html