Bug#932843: RFS: vnstat/1.18-2.1 [NMU]
On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 17:19:10 +0200
Sven Hoexter <sven@stormbind.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 10:56:47PM +0300, Teemu Toivola wrote:
> > vnstat (1.18-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
> >
> > * Non-maintainer upload.
> > * Changes by Christian Göttsche
> > - d/tests: run as root to fix debci (Closes: #907020)
> > - d/control: bump to std version 4.2.1 (no further changes)
> >
> > -- Teemu Toivola <tst@iki.fi> Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:47:18 +0300
>
> What's the situation of this package, are you now taking over
> the Debian packaging as well? Is Christian just missing a sponsor?
>
> From a technical perspective the policy is already at 4.4, though
> that should not matter so much in this specific case.
See the discussion in bug #907020 [1] for all details. The short version is
that in August 2018 Christian introduced new autopkgtest tests in 1.18-2
which didn't work due to lack of root access. #907020 was opened as a
result and Christian made the fix during the same day in Salsa. However,
for some reason, that fix was never uploaded. Last week the severity of
#907020 was changed from normal to serious placing the package to the
autoremoval queue. As I wasn't able to get in touch with Christian, I
concluded that doing a NMU for the changes he had already made in Salsa
would be the right thing to do. That's why the policy bump is to version
4.2.1 as I didn't want to mix in any of my own changes.
I'm hoping that Christian would continue as maintainer of this package but
he appears to be inactive right now and I haven't managed to get in contact
via email or IRC.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907020
-Teemu
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