Am Freitag, 28. November 2014, 12:36:39 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > Hi, I am the author and maintainer of libpsl, a dependency of package > > wget. > > > > So far Daniel Kahn Gillmor has been the sponsor. He has not responded to > > my > > emails asking him to upload a new version of libpsl (last one 17.11.2014). > > Now I am looking for a new sponsor. > > > > The latest uploaded/packaged version is 0.5.1-1. > > The latest release version is 0.6.2 which fixes an issue that should IMHO > > go into the upcoming Jessie. (It corrects a failure in the pkg-config > > file which prevents proper detection of libpsl presence.) > > > > The packaging is done and needs review and uploading. > > It can be found in a git repository (https://github.com/rockdaboot/libpsl, > > branch 'debian'). > > > > If there is anything else I can do, please give me a hint. > > Jessie is in freeze, entering deep freeze in a few days. > > Prepare a fully-justified request for a release unblock, otherwise it is > pointless to upload to sid (experimental is OK). > > It must have a full description of the reasons for the change, the diffstat > of the debdiff, and a debdiff. I usually abridge from the debdiff any noise > such as updates to automatically-generated files/buildsystem (configure, > config.sub/guess, etc). > > It is likely that it would be better to just patch 0.5.1-1 with the > pkg-config change, unless the changes between 0.5.1 and 0.6.2 upstream are > all simple and only bugfixes. Thanks for your answer, though I have to look up what "fully-justified request for a release unblock" means. Well, I could open a few bug reports to libpsl (which already have been fixed upstream)... but it seems pretty pointless ;-) I guess you are all pretty busy... I am not in a hurry and will wait for the unfreeze. Sorry for being a bit clueless about Debian organisation. It's the first time I came in contact with it. Tim
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