Bug#932843: RFS: vnstat/1.18-2.1 [NMU]

[Sven Hoexter <sven@stormbind.net>]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 06:40:18PM +0300, Teemu Toivola wrote:

Hi,

> 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 see. Ok doesn't make much sense to discuss more about this one-liner or
the policy version. While the later does not make much sense it won't cause
any harm either.

Thanks for pushing that fix forward.

Sven